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Salary: USD 159,000 - 272,000 / annual
ByteDance's Global Data Center Engineering team is seeking a Data Center Mechanical Engineer to support Americas regional projects. This role focuses on enabling business growth through new data center capacity while ensuring continuous stability of data center engineering systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Participate in data center site selection, contractual evaluations, and design solutions, supporting project execution from construction through final acceptance
- Review MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) designs for new data center builds and data hall fit-outs; create layout plans and perform test fits to validate server capacity and failover calculations
- Engage in testing and commissioning discussions to verify design elements meet requirements
- Support the DC Engineering Facilities Management team as a subject matter expert, identifying design limitations and risks
- Conduct periodic audits and assessments to evaluate design effectiveness and practicality in operational data centers
- Serve as an ambassador explaining data center infrastructure design to stakeholders and identify opportunities to enhance MEP design for future business needs
- Travel internationally up to 6 times per year (China, Americas, South Asia); valid passport and visa eligibility required
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
- Strong knowledge of power and cooling designs and capacity calculations
- Understanding of power and cooling redundancy (2N, N+1 Distributed Redundant, UTI, TIA-942, ASHRAE standards)
- Experience with concurrent maintainability in cooling redundancy design
- Demonstrated ability to lead or influence engineering design and architecture teams through data center design phases (conceptual to 90% detailed design)
- Proficiency with data center tiering standards (TIA-942 Tier 3, Uptime Tier 3)
- Experience leading construction teams on data hall fit-outs, including IT coordination and power/cooling planning
- Experience with testing and commissioning (L1-L5 tests) to validate system design
- Knowledge of mechanical/electrical systems: generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, UPS, electrical sub-distribution
- Experience with liquid cooling for IT systems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Preferred qualifications:
- 4+ years of data center engineering experience
- Familiarity with CFD modeling, PUE calculations, systems commissioning, and availability analysis
- Heat transfer and emergency power generation expertise
