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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Thermal Systems Lead Engineer, Sustainable Data Center Design #3612653 in Davidson - **Company:** Energy Jobline - **Location:** Davidson, NC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Knowledge Management, High Performance Computing - **Published:** July 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/thermal-systems-lead-engineer-sustainable-data-center-design-3612653-davidson-31045729 ## About the Role * 8+ years of relevant experience in data center cooling, sustainable design, mechanical systems, thermal systems, energy engineering, building infrastructure, or mission-critical facilities. * Direct experience with data center, commercial building, industrial, or mission-critical cooling systems. * Strong system-level understanding of energy efficiency, water usage, heat rejection, thermal storage, heat recovery, controls, and lifecycle performance. * Experience evaluating sustainable cooling strategies such as liquid cooling, economization, optimized chiller/dry cooler operation, water conservation, low-carbon design, or waste heat recovery. * Ability to translate sustainability goals into practical engineering decisions, product direction, and customer-facing recommendations. * Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical and sustainability concepts to customers, leadership, engineering teams, field teams, and industry stakeholders. * Experience with industry councils, standards bodies, technical committees, conferences, or public-facing engineering forums is strongly . * Exposure to OCP, ASHRAE TC 9.9, IEEE, ASME, LEED, WELL, CEM, energy codes, or data center sustainability frameworks is . * Professional Engineering license, advanced degree, publications, patents, conference speaking, white papers, or standards work are helpful but not required. ## Description Join a high-performing engineering team focused on advancing sustainable thermal systems for high-density data center, AI, HPC, commercial building, and mission-critical environments. This organization is helping shape the next of cooling infrastructure by developing solutions that improve efficiency, reduce environmental impact, support energy and water optimization, and enable scalable deployment for rapidly growing compute demands. This team works at the intersection of data center cooling, building infrastructure, sustainability, product development, and industry engagement. The Sustainable Design Lead will help define how advanced cooling systems can deliver reliable performance while improving energy efficiency, water usage, carbon impact, serviceability, and long-term operating cost. This is an opportunity to influence future data center thermal architectures while partnering with engineering, product, controls, sustainability, sales, field, customer-facing, and industry standards teams. What's In Store For You: This is a full-time direct hire opportunity supporting a high-growth data center thermal systems portfolio. The role offers the chance to help define sustainable cooling strategies for AI, HPC, hyperscale, commercial building, and mission-critical environments. The right candidate will help connect technical system design with sustainability outcomes, industry standards, customer needs, and commercialization strategy. Remote flexibility may be considered for exceptional candidates, with travel expected as needed for customer meetings, industry events, standards engagement, technical reviews, and project support. How You Will Make An Impact: * Lead sustainable design strategy for advanced data center and building thermal systems. * Evaluate cooling architectures for energy efficiency, water usage, carbon impact, reliability, serviceability, scalability, and lifecycle performance. * Support development of system-level concepts involving liquid cooling, airside cooling, heat rejection, thermal storage, heat recovery, water-side economization, and optimized controls. * Translate sustainability goals into practical engineering requirements, reference design inputs, product requirements, and customer-facing technical guidance. * Partner with engineering, product, controls, modeling, field, sales, and customer teams to align thermal system design with sustainability and performance goals. * Evaluate tradeoffs between energy efficiency, water consumption, redundancy, cost, maintainability, and deployment readiness. * Support technical engagement with customers, industry groups, standards bodies, councils, conferences, and internal leadership. * Contribute to white papers, design guides, sustainability roadmaps, technical presentations, and industry-facing materials. * Mentor engineers and help build organizational knowledge around sustainable thermal systems for data center and building infrastructure. ## Related Videos - [The Sustainability Race: AI's Promises, Pitfalls and Potential](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100155-the-sustainability-race-ai-s-promises-pitfalls-and-potential) - [Same Tower, New Confusion: The Tower of Babel 2.0](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100101-same-tower-new-confusion-the-tower-of-babel-2-0) - [Edit Your Future: Queerverse Radical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/909-edit-your-future-queerverse-radical-ai) - [Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2133-building-the-nervous-system-of-ai-michael-kagan-nvidia) - [A Hitchhiker's Guide to Resource Efficient Software](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1414-a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-resource-efficient-software) - [How to be balanced in a software development team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/66-how-to-be-balanced-in-a-software-development-team) ## Related Articles - [A Guide to Green Tech and Green IT Careers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/374-a-guide-to-green-tech-and-green-it-careers) - [Is Software Development Making the Climate Crisis Worse?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/551-is-software-development-making-the-climate-crisis-worse) - [6 Emerging Technologies We’ll Learn About in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/381-6-emerging-technologies-we-ll-learn-about-in-2025) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk)