Regional Mechanical Design Manager

About Volta

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role

The Regional Mechanical Design Manager owns mechanical design across the Volta fleet. Working within the design and engineering function, you will hold the mechanical reference designs – cooling above all – govern how they are applied on every project, and assure the decisions that keep Volta's capacity coolable at scale.

AI density is a mechanical problem before it is anything else. You will keep Volta's cooling and mechanical designs standard, buildable and ready for liquid-cooled NVIDIA Vera deployments, so every project inherits the fleet's best answer rather than inventing its own.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own the mechanical reference designs used across all Volta projects
• Govern application of standard designs on each project and manage deviations with discipline
• Assure project mechanical design across heat rejection, chilled water and liquid cooling systems
• Review consultant and contractor mechanical deliverables against fleet standards
• Support cooling architecture decisions for liquid-cooled, high-density NVIDIA Vera deployments
• Work with procurement on specifications for long-lead mechanical plant
• Feed commissioning and operational lessons back into the reference designs
• Coach project design leads on mechanical standards and practice

What You Bring

• Data center mechanical design experience is essential
• Deep knowledge of cooling systems, including chilled water and heat rejection plant
• Working knowledge of liquid cooling for high-density compute
• A record governing design standards across multiple projects or a fleet
• Experience reviewing and assuring consultant and contractor design work
• Comfort working across European and US projects and time zones

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What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of. As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success
• Retirement/pension contributions
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
• Generous number of vacation days each year

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

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