Principal Structural Engineer – Data Center Infrastructure

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $132.4k - $238.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🗼 Civil Engineer

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Jabil

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1966

🚘 Automotive

🎖️ Defense

🏥 Healthcare

Automotive • Defense • Healthcare

Jabil is a leading business-to-business (B2B) company providing engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and design services. With over 50 years of experience, Jabil partners with some of the world's top brands to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. The company operates over 100 locations globally, emphasizing sustainability and community involvement as part of its core values. Jabil is committed to supporting its workforce with diverse and inclusive opportunities and fostering professional growth and innovation. The company is recognized globally for its excellence and commitment to minimizing environmental impact while building vibrant communities.

📋 Description

• Evaluate structural solutions for technical risk, cost efficiency, schedule, robustness, buildability, and delivery alignment • Lead gravity, wind, seismic, and vibration analysis for modules, frames, racks, and support structures • Analyze MDCs, equipment skids, enclosures, and factory-built assemblies and provide structural recommendations • Validate structural solutions for HAC systems across overhead, rack-integrated, and floor-supported configurations • Develop seismic bracing and restraint strategies for MEP systems, cable trays, pipe racks, and modular assemblies • Engineer foundations, steel frames, and anchorage solutions for data center equipment • Define structural strategies for thermal loads, vibration-sensitive equipment, and deflection-managed assemblies • Develop and maintain DFMEA documentation and optimize product families for weight, manufacturability, cost, and scalability • Support structural design and coordination for manufacturing facilities and production spaces • Evaluate factory layout changes, equipment installations, capacity expansions, floor loading, crane rails, mezzanines, docks, and material-handling systems • Support factory layout and integration, including load paths, transportation loads, installation constraints, DFMA, design templates, and modularization strategies • Define requirements for transportation, lifting, placing, shipping, and logistics of equipment and skids • Collaborate with BIM/Revit teams on integrated, clash-free structural models and master coordination models • Participate in multi-discipline coordination reviews and resolve structural clearances, anchorage zones, and maintenance envelopes • Review coordination drawings and maintain structural model quality and LOD standards per the BIM Execution Plan • Collaborate with fabrication shops and factory teams to ensure designs are buildable, manufacturable, and installation-ready • Review shop drawings, fabrication details, welds, connections, and material specifications • Verify lifting, rigging, transportation, and shipping load cases, including temporary bracing • Support factory builds, FATs, and field installations; resolve RFIs, NCRs, and production deviations • Produce and review calculations, drawings, specifications, and stamped engineering packages • Coordinate with third-party engineering partners and AHJ approvals • Ensure compliance with applicable codes, seismic standards, customer requirements, and product certification pathways • Contribute to design standards, platform templates, best practices, and lessons-learned documentation • Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews, and serve as a technical escalation point

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering or Civil Engineering (structural emphasis) required • 8+ years of progressive structural engineering experience, including leadership of complex structural systems in high-availability industrial or mission-critical facilities • Professional Engineer (PE) license required • Proven experience producing stamped engineering packages, reviewing vendor calculations, and managing AHJ coordination • Experience with modular construction, prefabricated data center infrastructure, or factory-built assemblies strongly preferred • Familiarity with hyperscale or colocation data center programs and platform-based delivery models is a significant plus • Proficiency with structural analysis software — SAP2000, ETABS, STAAD, RISA, RAM, or similar • Working knowledge of IBC, ASCE 7, AISC, ACI, and applicable seismic and non-structural anchorage standards • Ability to produce and interpret stamped engineering calculations, shop drawings, and fabrication details across steel, concrete, and connection design • Familiarity with fatigue, vibration, and dynamic loading analysis in environments with rotating or sensitive equipment • Experience with CAD, PDM, and PLM tools — SolidWorks, Revit, Windchill, Teamcenter, or equivalent • Familiarity with BIM coordination workflows, clash detection tools (e.g., Navisworks), and LOD standards is a plus • Practical understanding of data center infrastructure — MDCs, HAC systems, chillers, generators, UPS, PDUs, SFN/cooling piping — and the structural loading, clearance, and anchorage demands they impose • Familiarity with ASHRAE, SMACNA, and seismic bracing standards as they apply to MEP systems in mission-critical environments • Understanding of modular and prefabricated construction approaches, factory build sequences, and OTR shipping constraints for large equipment and skids • Awareness of international codes and standards for global deployment programs is a plus • Ability to present and defend technical positions clearly to engineering, manufacturing, and customer stakeholders, written and verbal • Comfortable leading design reviews, driving cross-discipline conflict resolution, and making sound engineering decisions under schedule pressure • Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team-wide standards and knowledge-sharing • Ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 30%

🏖️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive based on performance • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment • 4 weeks of paid parental leave • 11 company-paid holidays in 2027 (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly • 401(k) retirement plan • Employee stock purchase plan