Galaxydigitalservices
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Dallas, Texas. Posted 3 months ago
The role
The Senior Mechanical Engineer provides full-lifecycle mechanical engineering support across a data center portfolio. This includes site design, construction, commissioning, and enduring operations to ensure system reliability and uptime.
What you will do
- Provide mechanical engineering input during site selection and design phases
- Review mechanical design packages for operational readiness and maintainability
- Evaluate mechanical system designs including chilled water systems and cooling units
- Support construction-phase technical reviews to ensure alignment with design intent
- Review and provide input on commissioning plans and functional performance tests
- Serve as a mechanical technical escalation point for site operations during incidents
- Lead or support root cause analysis for mechanical incidents and equipment failures
- Define and improve preventative maintenance standards for critical equipment
- Develop mechanical asset criticality frameworks to prioritize maintenance
- Develop and maintain mechanical engineering standards and operating playbooks
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related technical discipline
- 8-10 years of progressive mechanical engineering experience
- At least 5 years supporting data centers, mission-critical facilities, central plants, industrial facilities, or other 24x7 high-availability environments
- Experience supporting mechanical infrastructure across design review, construction, commissioning, turnover, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operations
- Strong working knowledge of data center or mission-critical mechanical systems
- Experience reviewing mechanical drawings, equipment submittals, and commissioning scripts
- Ability to troubleshoot complex mechanical issues in live operational environments
- Experience with preventative maintenance, root cause analysis, and asset lifecycle management
Nice to have
- 10+ years of mechanical engineering experience in large-scale data center, mission-critical, or multi-site critical infrastructure environments
- Professional Engineer license or Engineer-in-Training certification
- Experience serving as a senior mechanical technical escalation point for live operational facilities
- Experience supporting new data center builds, major expansions, retrofits, integrated systems testing, and operational turnover
- Knowledge of Uptime Institute Tier concepts, ASHRAE guidance, OEM maintenance requirements, and data center availability expectations
- Experience with BMS platforms, mechanical controls troubleshooting, alarm strategy, trend analysis, and sequence optimization
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance technologies, thermal modeling, CFD, digital asset management, CMMS data quality, or reliability analytics
- Experience developing mechanical standards, SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, RCA templates, training materials, and engineering governance processes
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Flexible Time Off (i.e. unlimited paid vacation days)
- Company paid Holidays (14)
- Company paid sick leave
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
- 3% 401(k) company contribution
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Ginger
- Free daily snacks in-office
About the company
Galaxy Digital Inc. is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. The company develops and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads.