Principal Mechanical Commissioning Engineer
About Volta
Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.
The role
As Principal Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, you will be Volta's technical authority for mechanical commissioning. You will set the standards that prove cooling systems on every DSX site can carry high-density AI workloads under normal, degraded and recovery conditions.
This is a principal-level individual contributor role. Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Commissioning & Handover, your standards will govern every site, contractor and commissioning agent we use, and you will make the final technical call on mechanical acceptance questions across
What You Will Do
Mechanical commissioning standards
- Own Volta's global mechanical commissioning standards, from L1 to L5 off-site commissioning, and integrated system testing.
- Define the sequence of operations (SOO), for all the mechanical commissioning activities through L1 to L5.
- Set test strategy for cooling plant, pumps, hydronics, air systems, water treatment and the facility side of liquid cooling.
- Define cooling failure, redundancy and recovery scenarios under representative AI loads.
Technical authority
- Act as the escalation point fo...
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