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Jabil

Principal Structural Engineer – Data Center Infrastructure

Jabil

. Evaluate structural solutions for technical risk, cost efficiency, schedule, robustness, buildability, and delivery alignment .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • United StatesLead💰 $132,400 - $238,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Ruby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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

What you’ll need
  • 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

Comp & perks
  • 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)