# Principal Mechanical Engineer

This Principal Mechanical Engineer is responsible for helping lead and shape the strategic direction of next-generation thermal management technologies - including liquid cooling, cryo-cooling, waste heat recovery, footprint density improvement, etc. - for data center and critical infrastructure applications. The goal is to advance Vertiv's thermal technology portfolio from concept through proof-of-concept, establish technical best practices across the advanced development organization, and deliver robust design guidelines that enable seamless handover to New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) teams for productization. Vertiv's Thermal Business Unit is a global leader in designing, manufacturing, and servicing mission-critical thermal management solutions for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities worldwide. The Thermal BU's portfolio spans the complete thermal chain from chip to atmosphere, including room cooling, in-row cooling, rack cooling, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, coolant distribution units (CDUs), rear-door heat exchangers, chillers, dry coolers, and trim coolers. Operating across all major regions (Americas, EMEA, and Asia

- **Id**: 323149
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vertiv-principal-mechanical-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Westerville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:48:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 67
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4366
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Servers & Data Center Hardware, Power Supplies & Power Electronics, HVAC & Refrigeration

## Company

- **Id**: 58885
- **Name**: Vertiv
- **Domain**: vertiv.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vertiv>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 460
- **Ghost share**: 0.004
- **Stale share**: 0.863
- **Repost share**: 0.009
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 95000
- **Max usd**: 193000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1961

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 67

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T16:42:01Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-10-19T21:48:30Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 14 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 14

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.272
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 67
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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