COE-AI DataCenter-Build(Cooling)
HCLTech
2 - 5 years
Chennai
Posted: 08/03/2026
Job Description
Job Title: Product Manager DC Design & Build Services.
Location: Chennai, Noida and Bangalore.
Experience: 8years to 20 years.
The Role
The CoE AI Data Center Cooling Design & Build is a global Center-of-Excellence role responsible for defining, standardizing, and governing thermal management architectures for next-generation AI-ready and hyperscale data centers.
This role serves as the technical authority for mission-critical cooling systems and ensures designs are scalable, energy-efficient, resilient, and aligned with hyperscaler and sustainability expectations.
The position translates high-density AI heat loads into optimized cooling solutions covering air-based and liquid-based technologies, including chilled water systems, DX systems, rear-door heat exchangers, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and immersion cooling.
The role establishes global cooling reference architectures, standardized design frameworks, and deployment playbooks to enable repeatable global builds.
Key Responsibilities:
Define and govern global cooling design standards for AI and hyperscale data centers
Develop end-to-end thermal management architectures for high-density environments
Translate GPU and AI workload heat profiles into optimized cooling designs
Lead design and adoption of liquid cooling technologies (D2C, RDHx, immersion)
Develop cooling redundancy models such as N+1, 2N, and distributed cooling
Create standardized cooling design templates and engineering toolkits
Review and approve cooling system schematics and layouts
Define water management, leak detection, and mitigation strategies
Lead cooling design risk assessments and mitigation planning
Validate OEM cooling equipment selection and interoperability
Develop lifecycle and maintainability strategies
Establish monitoring and analytics strategies for thermal performance
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering or Thermal Engineering
- 1012+ years in mission-critical cooling or HVAC design
- Strong experience in hyperscale or AI data centers
- Expertise in chilled water, DX, and liquid cooling systems
- Proven experience in high-density and HPC environments
- Experience working with global OEM ecosystems
- Strong understanding of redundancy and resiliency strategies
- Experience supporting multi-region deployments
- Strong documentation and presentation skills
Specifics:
- Global CoE role focused on cooling design governance
- Strong emphasis on AI-ready high-density cooling solutions
- Exposure to next-gen liquid cooling technologies
- Collaboration with global cross-functional teams
- Opportunity to shape sustainable data center infrastructure
- Requires strong technical leadership and innovation mindset
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