Principal Structural Engineer – Data Center Infrastructure

🔥 19 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $132.4k - $238.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🗼 Civil Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

👻 Ghost score 0%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Jabil

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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 and recommend structural solutions for MDCs, equipment skids, enclosures, and factory-built assemblies • 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 for chillers, generators, UPS systems, pumps, heat exchangers, and fluid distribution equipment • Define structural strategies for thermal loads, vibration-sensitive equipment, and deflection-managed assemblies • Develop and maintain DFMEA documentation and mitigate structural risks across product families • Optimize recurring product families for weight, manufacturability, cost, and platform scalability • Support structural design and coordination for manufacturing and production facilities, including floor loading, equipment pads, crane rails, mezzanines, dock infrastructure, and material handling systems • Evaluate structural implications of factory layout changes, equipment installations, and capacity expansions • Collaborate with facility planning and operations teams on structural requirements for production spaces • Support factory layout and integration, including load paths, transportation loads, and installation constraints • Develop DFMA design templates and modularization strategies for repeatability • Define and validate transportation, lifting, placing, shipping, and logistics requirements • Collaborate with BIM/Revit teams on integrated, clash-free, current structural models • Participate in multidisciplinary coordination reviews and resolve clearances, anchorage zones, and maintenance envelopes • Review coordination drawings and maintain model quality and LOD standards under 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 codes, seismic standards, customer requirements, and 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 such as 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 such as SolidWorks, Revit, Windchill, Teamcenter, or equivalent • Familiarity with BIM coordination workflows, clash detection tools such as Navisworks, and LOD standards is a plus • Practical understanding of data center infrastructure, including MDCs, HAC systems, chillers, generators, UPS, PDUs, SFN/cooling piping, and associated structural demands • Familiarity with ASHRAE, SMACNA, and seismic bracing standards for MEP systems in mission-critical environments • Understanding of modular and prefabricated construction approaches, factory build sequences, and OTR shipping constraints • 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 • 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 domestically and internationally up to 30% • Master's degree preferred

🏖️ 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 the 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 • Up to 30% domestic and/or international travel (rare)