Liquid-Cooling Specialist - Datacenter

NVIDIA is hiring a Liquid-Cooling Specialist - Datacenter in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $60k-$101k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

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We are seeking a Liquid Cooling Specialist to support and manage the liquid cooling infrastructure across NVIDIA's datacenter engineering labs. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliable operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of liquid-cooled systems that support the development and validation of next-generation datacenter products. In addition to owning liquid cooling infrastructure, this individual will support general datacenter bench lab operations, working closely with engineering teams to maintain a safe, efficient, and productive lab environment.

What you'll be doing:

Work with engineering, lab operations, facilities, and site services teams to understand liquid cooling needs for new server platforms and lab deployments.
Install, configure, maintain, and fix CDUs, facility water connections, manifolds, hoses, pumps, valves, quick disconnects, sensors, and related cooling equipment.
Perform preventive maintenance, inspections, leak testing, coolant quality checks, system health monitoring, and incident response for liquid cooling infrastructure.
Maintain cooling equipment inventory, SOPs, maintenance schedules, infrastructure documentation, and compliance with lab safety and EH&S requirements.
Assemble, build and install bench top development platforms and large server systems. Run system tests, collect and report on testing results. Screen modules and boards as part of validation testing and debug.

What we need to see:

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience. Solid understanding of engineering design principles, mechanical systems, and liquid cooling infrastructure is required.
5+ years of experience supporting engineering labs, datacenter environments, hardware validation labs, facilities operations, or similar technical settings.
2+ years of hands-on experience with liquid cooling, facility water systems, chilled water systems, HVAC, industrial cooling, or related mechanical infrastructure.
Working knowledge of CDUs, pumps, valves, heat exchangers, manifolds, tubing, quick disconnects, sensors, coolant loops, and facility water connections.
Strong mechanical solving, organization, communication, and prioritization skills. Ability to support multiple engineering teams in an active lab environment.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Experience supporting liquid-cooled AI, HPC, or high-density datacenter server platforms is a plus!
Familiarity with datacenter cooling architectures, facility water systems, chilled water systems, BMS, and thermal management technologies.
Experience reviewing cooling health data such as flow rate, pressure, temperature, coolant quality, alarms, and system trends.
Experience with leak detection, automated alerting, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements.
Experience improving lab processes, coordinating vendors, supporting safety programs, or helping expand liquid cooling infrastructure.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:
60,000 USD – 101,200 USD for Level 3; and 72,000 USD – 120,750 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

How we rate this

Liquid-Cooling Specialist - Datacenter at NVIDIA rates 24 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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