Fire Protection Engineer

🕒 2 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $177k - $285k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Description

• Develop and maintain fire protection and life-safety design criteria, technical standards, and review requirements for self-build data center campuses • Review fire protection drawings, specifications, code analyses, fire and life-safety narratives, hydraulic calculations, equipment submittals, and sequences of operation across project phases • Provide owner-side engineering direction for fire detection and alarm, automatic suppression, fire pumps and water storage, smoke control, emergency communication, and related life-safety systems • Integrate fire protection requirements with architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical, controls, security, hardware, and operational systems • Partner with code officials, authorities having jurisdiction, insurers, consultants, contractors, and equipment vendors to resolve code interpretations and approval risks • Support constructability reviews, RFIs, submittals, field inspections, deficiency resolution, and change management during construction • Define commissioning, integrated-system testing, acceptance, turnover, and operational-readiness criteria • Assess fire and life-safety risks involving high-density compute, battery and energy-storage systems, generators, fuel systems, utility infrastructure, cooling systems, hazardous materials, and construction activities • Support incident response, root-cause reviews, corrective actions, and lessons learned • Maintain records of design decisions, code positions, approvals, testing results, open risks, and turnover requirements • Travel regularly to project sites for design reviews, field execution, testing, commissioning, and operational readiness

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience delivering fire and life-safety systems • 8+ years of fire protection engineering experience supporting data centers, industrial facilities, advanced manufacturing, energy infrastructure, or other mission-critical environments • Strong knowledge of applicable building and fire codes and standards, including IBC, IFC, NFPA requirements, and local authority approval processes • Technical depth in fire alarm and detection, water-based suppression, special-hazard suppression, fire pumps and water supply, smoke control, egress, and integrated life-safety systems • Experience reviewing fire protection designs, specifications, hydraulic calculations, equipment submittals, testing procedures, and commissioning results • Ability to work with authorities having jurisdiction, engineering consultants, contractors, insurers, vendors, and internal stakeholders • Experience resolving field issues and design changes while maintaining code compliance, safety, quality, schedule, and documentation • Strong written and verbal communication and sound engineering judgment • Professional Engineer licensure in Fire Protection Engineering, or ability to obtain licensure in relevant jurisdictions • Preferred: experience with hyperscale data centers, high-density compute environments, or global multi-site infrastructure programs • Preferred: experience with battery rooms, energy-storage systems, generator plants, fuel systems, high-voltage substations, or campus utility infrastructure • Preferred: familiarity with performance-based design, fire and smoke modeling, quantitative risk assessment, or fire-hazard analysis • Preferred: experience leading integrated testing and coordinating fire alarm, suppression, controls, security, mechanical, and electrical interfaces • Preferred: experience developing reusable standards, design templates, commissioning requirements, and incident-prevention programs across multiple sites

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family • Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expense accounts • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Paid parental leave: up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents • Paid medical and caregiver leave: up to 8 weeks • Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees • 13+ paid company holidays • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year • Paid sick or safe time • Mental health and wellness support • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage • Annual learning and development stipend • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible • Relocation support for eligible employees • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided

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