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This is a centralized senior individual-contributor role with ownership across four areas: white-space design, infrastructure fit, physical network architecture, and design handoff.\nYour primary deliverable is an approved, coordinated design package that defines what goes where, how it connects, and the power and cooling infrastructure it requires. You will translate equipment configurations and capacity plans into floor plans, rack layouts, and physical connectivity designs that deployment teams can execute.\nAs Gimlet’s technical authority for data hall design, you will approve designs, resolve tradeoffs within your scope, and establish repeatable standards across our global portfolio. You will work closely with compute and network engineers, facilities teams, colocation providers, and deployment teams to resolve issues before installation begins. You will also contribute to consultant reviews, RFPs, cost reviews, and commissioning where they relate to the data hall design.\nWhat you will work on\nWhite-space design: Own floor plans and rack layouts, including equipment placement, aisle widths, service clearances, containment, cable pathways, and expansion space. Confirm access and floor-loading constraints with providers and maintain reusable layout standards.\n\nInfrastructure fit: Translate equipment specifications into rack-level and aggregate IT power and cooling requirements. Verify that provider capacity, redundancy, and connection points support the deployment, and coordinate cooling equipment placement and distribution routes with specialists.\n\nPhysical network architecture: Define network equipment placement, physical connections between rack groups and network layers, fiber routes, patching locations, and redundant pathways. Partner with network engineering to align these designs with capacity requirements and the detailed logical network design.\n\nDesign handoff: Deliver coordinated floor plans, rack layouts, connectivity drawings, equipment schedules, and power and cooling requirements. Review design changes, resolve installation questions, and maintain drawings that reflect the installed configuration.\n\nYou may be a good fit if\nYou have owned data center white-space designs from initial requirements through installation handoff.\n\nYou can produce floor plans and rack layouts that balance equipment density, serviceability, containment, cabling, power, cooling, and future growth.\n\nYou can interpret electrical and mechanical drawings, translate equipment specifications into infrastructure requirements, and work with specialists to identify and resolve capacity gaps.\n\nYou understand the practical constraints of high-density deployments within colocation facilities, including equipment access, cable management, and ongoing operations.\n\nYou understand data center network layers well enough to plan equipment placement, physical connectivity, fiber pathways, and resilience. Detailed routing-protocol design and switch configuration expertise are not required.\n\nYou can author and review layouts using AutoCAD, Bluebeam, or equivalent tools, and maintain clear equipment schedules, design requirements, and revision records.\n\nYou make sound design tradeoffs across capacity, reliability, serviceability, cost, and growth, and communicate decisions clearly to providers, engineers, and installation teams.\n\nStrong candidates may also have\nExperience with high-density AI or HPC infrastructure, GPU racks, or heterogeneous compute platforms.\n\nExperience with direct-to-chip liquid cooling, CDUs, facility water interfaces, or hybrid air- and liquid-cooled deployments.\n\nExperience evaluating colocation sites and aligning customer equipment requirements with provider electrical and mechanical infrastructure.\n\nExperience with Revit or other BIM tools, DCIM systems, and capacity-planning tools.\n\nFamiliarity with TIA-942, BICSI, and ASHRAE guidance, and experience coordinating applicable code requirements with qualified design professionals.\n\nWhy join now?\nGimlet is expanding from its core technology into a production neocloud spanning new hardware, customers, and data centers.\nSolve hard problems.\n\nOwn meaningful work.\n\nBuild for production.\n\nHelp define what’s next.\n\nAgency Policy: Gimlet Labs does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms. 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