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# Design Engineer - Built World

- **Company:** Build Technologies
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £150,000.0 - £220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Autodesk Revit, Spreadsheets, Data Centers, Electronic Design Automation, Python (Programming Language), Scripting, Generative AI
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ec9b3020afaaa1f6

## About the Role

* Hands-on design experience on data centers, mission-critical facilities, or power and energy infrastructure.
 * Strong grounding in MEP: electrical distribution, mechanical and cooling systems, redundancy (N+1, 2N) and critical facilities design.
 * Experience at a leading engineering or design firm (e.g. Arup, Jacobs, Burns & McDonnell, Corgan, HDR, Syska Hennessy), or on a hyperscaler or colocation design team.
 * Taken projects from concept through detailed design, coordinating across disciplines and with contractors.
 * Comfortable with numbers and tools: load calcs, single-line diagrams, BIM/Revit, and spreadsheets or scripts to move fast.
 * Bias to ownership and speed. You'd rather ship a working answer today than a perfect one next month.

Nice to haves

 * PE licence (or on track), or chartered engineer status.
 * Exposure to utility interconnection, on-site generation, BESS or grid-scale energy projects.
 * Experience with design automation, generative design, or scripting (Python, Dynamo, Grasshopper).
 * A degree in mechanical, electrical or civil engineering, or architectural engineering.

## Description

This role exists to make sure Build designs the way the best engineers do. The Design Engineer brings an engineering lens to data centers, power and energy infrastructure, and the wider built environment, and takes projects through design: from concept and feasibility to a coordinated, buildable scheme.

You are the source of truth for how a project actually gets engineered when the loads are large, the timelines are tight and the stakes are high.

You can expect to:

 * Take live projects through design: site and capacity studies, concept design, MEP, electrical and mechanical systems, and critical facilities design.
 * Size and lay out power, cooling and resilience systems for data centers and energy infrastructure, and pressure-test them against cost, schedule and constructability.
 * Work alongside Build's domain experts and engineers to turn design judgment into workflows, rules and checks that can be encoded into software.
 * Run proofs-of-concept for new design workflows by doing the work yourself, with an engineer supporting you on Build's systems.
 * Own design quality from an engineering perspective. If an output wouldn't survive review by a serious design firm, it's your job to surface and fix it.
 * Act as a credible peer to developers, operators, utilities and design consultants, speaking their language.
 * Feed what you learn on projects back into the core product.