CFD Engineer, Data Centers

🔥 15 hours ago

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $120k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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AECOM

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm that partners with clients to deliver innovative solutions to the most complex challenges while creating legacies for generations to come. Focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion, AECOM leverages technical expertise and digital innovation to drive transformative outcomes in infrastructure development, sustainability, and social systems. The company provides a wide range of services, including architecture & design, construction management, engineering, and environmental services across various markets such as transportation, energy, healthcare, and national governments. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, technical excellence, and community impact, AECOM is committed to building a better world.

📋 Description

• Own the full CFD study lifecycle from defining the design question through issuing technical reports • Perform internal data hall airflow and thermal studies covering rack temperatures, airflow distribution, containment, bypass, recirculation, cooling-unit placement, rack density, failure modes, and capacity expansion • Perform external studies for cooling towers, chillers, dry coolers, generator and boiler exhaust, mechanical yards, relief air, outdoor-air intakes, heat rejection, plume behavior, short-circuiting, and thermal re-entrainment • Conduct steady-state and transient analyses for cooling-system outages, equipment failures, load changes, control sequences, and thermal ride-through • Develop and document modeling assumptions using design documents, equipment data, controls narratives, weather data, commissioning information, and field measurements • Apply verification and validation practices, including mesh-sensitivity checks, mass and energy balance reviews, convergence assessment, hand calculations, and correlation to measured data • Evaluate results against project-specific criteria, ASHRAE TC 9.9 guidance, and applicable client, code, and industry requirements • Translate findings into actionable recommendations for equipment selection, airflow management, containment, intake/exhaust separation, controls, phasing, redundancy, and operational resilience • Prepare client-ready reports and visualizations communicating methodology, assumptions, scenarios, results, risks, limitations, and next steps • Present findings and coordinate with multidisciplinary project teams and clients • Contribute to standardized templates, modeling procedures, quality-control checklists, libraries, and lessons learned • Support technical knowledge sharing and mentoring of less-experienced staff

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline • 6+ years of hands-on CFD experience, including direct application to data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex thermal-management environments • Proficiency with at least one data-center or general-purpose CFD platform, such as Cadence 6SigmaDCX, Ansys Fluent, Ansys CFX, or OpenFOAM • Strong fundamentals in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, turbulence modeling, and HVAC system operation • Experience modeling both internal environments, such as IT spaces and containment systems, and external environments, such as mechanical yards, cooling equipment, intakes, and exhaust discharges • Working knowledge of data center cooling architectures, HVAC systems, redundancy concepts, controls and failure scenarios, and common thermal performance metrics • Experience independently delivering CFD studies from scoping through final report • Experience with geometry preparation, meshing, solver setup, convergence assessment, post-processing, and engineering interpretation • Ability to develop appropriate boundary conditions from design information and equipment performance data • Strong technical writing, visualization, and presentation skills • Sponsorship for U.S. employment authorization is not available now or in the future • Ability to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits • Life, AD&D, and disability benefits • Paid time off • Leaves of absences • Voluntary benefits and perks • Flexible work options • Well-being resources • Employee assistance program • Business travel insurance • Service recognition awards • Retirement savings plan • Employee stock purchase plan • Award-winning training and development programs • Career growth and mobility opportunities