Director, CSA Engineering

About the role

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

We are looking for a Director, Civil, Structural and Architectural (CSA) Engineering to be Volta's subject matter expert and design authority for CSA engineering across our global portfolio of AI factories. You will report directly to the Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering within the Delivery organisation.

You will fully own all CSA engineering input across the portfolio from Volta's design standards, Reference Design and running projects. This covers site civil works, ground engineering and foundations, building structures, and architecture, including building layouts, envelope and architectural design that is compliant with fire and life safety requirements. You will move easily between technical detail and strategic perspective, weighing engineering decisions against business priorities. As the business scales, you will build and lead the CSA engineering team.

What You Will Do

› Act as Volta's CSA subject matter expert and design authority, owning all civil, structural and architectural input across every AI factory in EMEA and AMER from concept through to construction and handover

› Develop, deploy and maintain Volta's CSA design standards, specifications and basis of design documents for all civil, structural and architectural systems, making sure they are applied consistently across every project and region

› Provide the CSA input to Volta's Reference Design for AI factory infrastructure, working with peers in the Design organisation to balance performance, cost, speed of delivery, constructability and scalability

› Own Volta's building and site architecture, including structural systems, floor and roof loading strategy, plant yards, building envelope and data hall layouts, and work with the teams defining rack and compute requirements so every building can accommodate the compute it is designed for

› Provide geotechnical due diligence input to site selection, and support live projects with CSA expertise from concept through detailed design, permitting, construction and handover, resolving technical issues quickly so delivery is never held up

› Track the evolution of AI hardware and construction methods, including rack weights, overhead services loading, larger plant and faster build techniques, and translate it into CSA standards that keep Volta's AI factories ready for next generation compute