Mechanical Engineer, Modular R&D

Job Description

Job Description

The Talent Mine is recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer, Modular R&D for a full-time, in-office position in Austin, Texas. You will in work in R&D for our client that is singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

How We Operate

• Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
• We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
• If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

The Modular Team

• The team builds data centers in months, not years, and that speed lives in the modular product: a data center engineered as a manufactured unit, not a construction project.
• Concept, released drawings, first article, and rate production on a compressed schedule, with the factory building from your work the same month you release it.
• On the way to 10 GW, every drawing, tolerance, and BOM decision has to survive rate manufacturing, so repeatability is designed in from the start.

Role Scope

• Engineer the mechanical systems of the modular product: cooling, piping, and airflow from concept to released drawings.
• Own the liquid cooling loops, pumps, and heat rejection design the modular product's density depends on.
• Solve the integration problems where mechanical meets structure and electrical: routing, interfaces, and tolerances where the disciplines collide.
• Support the factory and field: mechanical RFIs answered same-day, fixes engineered into the next revision.
• Prototype and validate: mockups, fit checks, and first-article reviews you attend in person.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us how you would fit.

• You've engineered mechanical systems for complex physical products or modular construction hands-on.
• Your drawings build clean: fabricators rarely call, and when they do you fix the drawing.
• You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls.
• You've supported production launches of your own designs.
• You iterate fast without losing configuration control.
• Liquid cooling depth. Sheet metal and piping design. 3D CAD mastery (SolidWorks, Inventor, Revit). DFM instincts.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Our client is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our client will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

The Talent Mine is a boutique recruitment firm dedicated to providing a pinpointed, hands-on, and friendly hiring experience for world-class professionals. We are unabashedly employee-centric, leveraging our team's deep technical and engineering backgrounds to ensure we match your unique "why" with the right mission-critical projects. Our long-term relationships are founded on trust, mutual respect, and a commitment to delivering win-win results for both our candidates and the world-changing companies we serve.