Applied Researcher – Data Centers
Designworks Talent, Bellevue
About the job
Applied researcher – data centers
Location: Hybrid | Bellevue, WA (downtown)
About the opportunity
Our client is seeking a Data Center Expert to join an Applied Research organization supporting the next generation of AI infrastructure.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a forward-looking technical perspective on AI models and inference technologies.
Your work will influence engineering roadmaps, infrastructure architecture, product direction, technology investments, commercial positioning, and the economics of serving AI workloads.
You will work closely with senior technical and business leaders but will not initially manage an operational team. The role is designed for a technically deep individual who can independently investigate complex questions, form defensible conclusions, and communicate those conclusions clearly enough to influence decisions across the organization.
What you'll do
- Hold the company's view of where data center infrastructure is going.
- Track vendor and hyperscaler roadmaps, research, standards work, and the startup and venture landscape across power and energy, cooling and thermal, construction and delivery, rack and hall architecture, siting and regulation, and the economics that connect them. Right now that means questions like whether facility-level 800 VDC becomes the standard, how far liquid cooling has to go as racks move from roughly 200 kW toward a megawatt, how much of a build program can be moved into a factory, and whether behind-the-meter generation beats waiting in the interconnect queue. Those specific questions will have changed within a year, holding the current version of them is the job.
