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Build is an AI company creating an agentic AI stack for institutional real estate, automating complex development and acquisitions workflows. The company partners with major alternative asset investors, developers, and governments to accelerate built projects in digital infrastructure, energy, and industrial sectors.
The Design Engineer role bridges engineering expertise and AI product development. You will take live projects through design phases—from site and capacity studies through concept design, MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing), and critical facilities design. Your responsibilities include:
- Sizing and laying out power, cooling, and resilience systems for data centers and energy infrastructure, pressure-testing against cost, schedule, and constructability constraints
- Working alongside domain experts to translate design judgment into workflows, rules, and checks that can be encoded into software
- Running proofs-of-concept for new design workflows by executing the work yourself with engineering support from Build's systems
- Owning design quality from an engineering perspective, ensuring outputs meet professional design firm standards
- Acting as a credible peer to developers, operators, utilities, and design consultants
- Feeding learnings from projects back into the core product
You will be the source of truth for how projects actually get engineered when loads are large, timelines are tight, and stakes are high. This is a hands-on role that requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to translate complex engineering into automatable processes.
Build emphasizes velocity, excellence, long-term thinking, ownership, customer passion, integrity, trust, and yield. The company operates with intensity and minimal bureaucracy, offering radical autonomy and meaningful equity alongside an accelerated learning environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to take projects from concept through detailed design, coordinating across disciplines and with contractors
- Comfort with numbers and tools: load calculations, single-line diagrams, BIM/Revit, and spreadsheets or scripts
- Bias toward ownership and speed; preference for shipping working solutions quickly over perfection
NICE TO HAVES:
- PE license (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)
- Degree in mechanical, electrical, civil engineering, or architectural engineering
