Liquid Cooling SME Job, Texas

Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert Lead the Future of AI Cooling Infrastructure
Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 Base + Bonus + Equity + Comprehensive Benefits

Are you a Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert looking for an opportunity to influence the future of AI, HPC, and high-density compute infrastructure?

Our client is a rapidly growing, heavily funded digital infrastructure organization investing aggressively in next-generation data center technologies. They are seeking a Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert to lead cooling strategy, deployment, commissioning, and optimization across mission-critical environments supporting the world’s fastest-growing AI workloads.
This is a rare opportunity for a Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert to become the technical authority for advanced cooling infrastructure while helping shape the future of high-density computing.

Why This Role Stands Out As the Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert, you will operate at the forefront of one of the data center industry’s fastest-growing disciplines.

The rapid growth of AI is fundamentally changing how facilities are designed and cooled. As a result, demand for proven liquid cooling expertise has never been higher. Our client is investing heavily in advanced cooling infrastructure and is looking for a Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert who can provide technical leadership across multiple large-scale deployments.

This opportunity offers:

• Technical ownership of cutting-edge liquid cooling infrastructure.
• Exposure to large-scale AI and HPC deployments.
• The opportunity to influence cooling standards, best practices, and future technology adoption.
• Direct collaboration with engineering, operations, construction, and executive leadership teams.
• Significant visibility across business-critical infrastructure projects.
• Long-term career progression within a rapidly expanding organization.
• Equity participation and the opportunity to share in future growth.

What You Will Do
As the Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert, you will:

• Lead technical strategy for large-scale liquid cooling deployments.
• Serve as the organization’s primary authority on direct-to-chip, immersion, cold plate, and hybrid cooling systems.
• Support projects throughout design, construction, commissioning, and operational phases.
• Provide technical leadership for pumps, valves, heat exchangers, piping networks, and fluid distribution systems.
• Apply heat transfer and fluid dynamics expertise to validate system performance and optimize cooling efficiency.
• Lead thermal validation, flow balancing, hydrostatic testing, and commissioning activities.
• Develop monitoring strategies, controls integration, alarm logic, and fail-safe operating procedures.
• Conduct root cause analysis for thermal and cooling-related incidents.
• Create maintenance strategies, operational procedures, and technical training programs.
• Partner with internal teams and external vendors to continuously improve infrastructure performance.

What We’re Looking For
To be successful as a Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert, you will likely possess:

• 7+ years of experience within thermal management, liquid cooling, industrial cooling systems, critical infrastructure, or related engineering disciplines.
• Experience supporting deployment, operation, or maintenance of liquid cooling systems within data centers, hyperscale environments, manufacturing facilities, or mission-critical infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, water treatment, pumping systems, and heat exchangers.
• Experience commissioning and troubleshooting complex cooling infrastructure.
• Ability to interpret P&IDs, mechanical drawings, schematics, and flow diagrams.
• Familiarity with PLC, BMS, SCADA, and industrial control systems.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and influence stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to bridge engineering design and field execution.

Highly desirable experience includes:

• Hyperscale data centers.
• AI infrastructure.
• High-performance computing environments.
• Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC).
• Immersion cooling technologies.
• CDU systems and secondary fluid networks.
• Advanced thermal management systems.

Compensation & Benefits Compensation
$150,000 – $200,000 Base Salary

Additional Rewards

• Annual performance bonus.
• Equity participation.
• Long-term incentive plan.
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
• Retirement savings plan with employer contribution.
• Career development and progression opportunities.
• Exposure to industry-leading AI and HPC projects.
• Opportunity to become a recognized leader within one of the fastest-growing segments of the data center industry.

Location
Remote (USA)
Work remotely while supporting critical infrastructure projects across multiple locations.
Travel
Significant travel required
You will regularly travel to support site commissioning, troubleshooting, operational initiatives, and new infrastructure deployments.

Why Join Now? AI is creating the biggest infrastructure shift the data center industry has seen in decades.
Our client is investing aggressively in liquid cooling technologies to support the next generation of compute environments. As a Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert, you will help define cooling standards, influence technology decisions, and solve some of the industry’s most complex thermal engineering challenges.

This is not simply another engineering position.
As the Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert, you will become one of the key technical authorities enabling the future of AI infrastructure.

Apply Now Interview scheduling is already underway.

If you’re interested in joining a high-growth organization, working on cutting-edge cooling technologies, and becoming a leading Thermal Liquid Cooling Subject Matter Expert within the industry, we’d welcome a confidential discussion.
Apply today or contact PJ Walsh for a confidential conversation before the shortlist is finalized.

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