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Volta is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform building the compute utility layer for the AI era. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with a leading frontier AI lab, Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta operates 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York with rapid scaling plans.
You will lead infrastructure engineering across Volta's global portfolio of AI factories, reporting to the VP, Development and Design. You will own the engineering function, developing and deploying design standards across EMEA and AMER regions. Your team will span multidisciplinary expertise: power and cooling, structures, controls, network infrastructure, electrical, mechanical, civil, and building services engineering.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineering subject matter experts across all disciplines
- Develop and deploy Volta's engineering design standards and specifications for AI factories, ensuring consistent application across projects and regions
- Provide engineering input into Volta's Reference Design for AI factory infrastructure, balancing performance, cost, delivery speed, and scalability
- Support live projects from concept through detailed design, construction, and commissioning
- Partner with CTO and CPO organizations to align facility design with compute, rack, and network requirements
- Track evolution of AI hardware (rack densities, liquid cooling, power architectures) and translate into design standards
- Own engineering governance, design reviews, technical assurance, and design authority for standard departures
- Work with Procurement to standardize specifications for long-lead equipment
- Champion safety, reliability, maintainability, energy efficiency, and water efficiency in design
- Embed lessons learned from delivery and operations into standards
- Provide engineering status, risk, and decision reporting to VP and executive team
Requirements:
- Degree in electrical, mechanical, civil, or building services engineering; chartered or professional engineer status (CEng or PE) preferred
- Significant experience in data center or mission-critical infrastructure engineering, including senior leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Deep technical expertise in at least one core discipline (e.g., power distribution or cooling) with strong working knowledge across all infrastructure disciplines
- Track record developing and deploying design standards, reference designs, or basis of design documents for hyperscale, colocation, or large-scale data center developers
- Hands-on experience with high-density and liquid-cooled environments for AI and HPC workloads; understanding of how GPU cluster requirements drive facility design
- Strong commercial judgment balancing capex, schedule, reliability, and operability in design decisions
- Confident executive-level communication explaining complex technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Collaborative leadership style building trust with peers; conviction to hold the line on standards
- Exposure to North American and European projects, or utility-scale power, onsite generation, or energy storage advantageous
