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Gimlet Labs is building a multi-silicon neocloud platform optimized for fast, efficient AI inference. The company combines large-scale compute infrastructure with an execution platform that partitions AI workloads and maps each stage to the hardware best suited to run it.
You will serve as Gimlet's technical authority for data center design, owning the translation of compute requirements into buildable data hall designs for new colocation sites and expansions. This is a centralized senior individual-contributor role with ownership across four core areas:
**White-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.
**Infrastructure 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.
**Physical 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.
**Design 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.
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 data hall design. As the technical authority, you will approve designs, resolve tradeoffs within your scope, and establish repeatable standards across Gimlet's global portfolio.
**Requirements:**
- Proven experience owning data center white-space designs from initial requirements through installation handoff
- Ability to produce floor plans and rack layouts that balance equipment density, serviceability, containment, cabling, power, cooling, and future growth
- Capability to interpret electrical and mechanical drawings, translate equipment specifications into infrastructure requirements, and work with specialists to identify and resolve capacity gaps
- Understanding of practical constraints of high-density deployments within colocation facilities, including equipment access, cable management, and ongoing operations
- Strong knowledge of data center network layers, equipment placement, physical connectivity, fiber pathways, and resilience design
- Proficiency with AutoCAD, Bluebeam, or equivalent CAD tools; ability to maintain clear equipment schedules, design requirements, and revision records
- Demonstrated ability to make sound design tradeoffs across capacity, reliability, serviceability, cost, and growth; clear communication with providers, engineers, and installation teams
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience with high-density AI or HPC infrastructure, GPU racks, or heterogeneous compute platforms
- Experience with direct-to-chip liquid cooling, CDUs, facility water interfaces, or hybrid air- and liquid-cooled deployments
- Experience evaluating colocation sites and aligning customer equipment requirements with provider electrical and mechanical infrastructure
- Experience with Revit or other BIM tools, DCIM systems, and capacity-planning tools
- Familiarity with TIA-942, BICSI, and ASHRAE guidance, and experience coordinating applicable code requirements with qualified design professionals
