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In this role, you will work on the products and designs that help customers deploy mission-critical infrastructure at megawatt scale with speed and efficiency. You will collaborate with manufacturing, product management, suppliers, and customer-facing teams to turn early concepts into practical product solutions.\nJob Summary\nThe Mechanical Engineer - Thermal will work within Vertiv’s global new product development team to design critical infrastructure products for next-generation data centers. This role focuses on thermal and mechanical system design for new products, platforms, and customer-driven solutions, including liquid cooling, HVAC integration, heat rejection, airflow management, and emerging cooling technologies\nThis engineer will own mechanical and thermal design activities from concept through release, including system architecture, equipment and component selection, thermal and fluid calculations, BIM/3D modeling, CFD and FNM coordination, BOM generation, prototype support, design verification, and production readiness. The role requires strong technical judgment, passion for innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to balance performance, cost, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, and schedule to deliver solutions at speed\nWhat You Will Do\nDevelop conceptual, detailed, and production-ready thermal designs for new data center infrastructure products and platforms.\nTranslate customer requirements, product roadmaps, and business needs into engineering requirements, system architectures, and practical design solutions.\nDesign and integrate liquid cooling, HVAC, heat rejection, airflow management, and other mechanical subsystems into complete data center infrastructure solutions.\nPerform thermal, fluid, airflow, energy, and component selection calculations to guide product decisions and validate design performance.\nCreate BIM/3D models, drawings, schematics, specifications, bills of material, and release documentation for prototypes, production release, and customer-facing deliverables.\nDrive prototype learning, CFD and fluid-network modeling coordination, laboratory testing, design verification, and corrective actions.\nCollaborate with electrical, controls, structural, manufacturing, procurement, quality, service, product management, and sales teams to deliver integrated and scalable product solutions.\nSupport supplier selection, component sourcing, technical bid evaluation, and manufacturability reviews for critical mechanical and thermal components.\nProvide production and field support during prototype builds, factory integration, testing, customer projects, and R&D activities.\nLead and participate in design reviews, technical tradeoff discussions, and stakeholder presentations.\nResearch emerging data center cooling technologies, construction methods, and infrastructure architectures to influence future product direction.\nWhat Will Make You Successful (Minimum Qualifications)\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline; advanced degree preferred.\n3-5 years of relevant engineering experience in product development, data center infrastructure, HVAC systems, thermal systems, modular infrastructure, or mission-critical facilities.\nStrong understanding of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, refrigeration cycles, airflow management, and mechanical component selection.\nExperience developing engineering drawings, 3D models, mechanical assemblies, schematics, specifications, BOMs, and release documentation.\nProficiency with BIM/CAD tools such as Revit, Inventor, AutoCAD, Creo, SolidWorks, or similar platforms.\nExperience working with suppliers, manufacturing teams, quality teams, and cross-functional engineering groups to launch new products or complex engineered systems.\nStrong communication, problem-solving, innovation, curiosity, and technical decision-making skills.\nAbility to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and make sound engineering 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