Senior Director, Data Center Design & Engineering
CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a large-scale digital infrastructure developer that owns and operates a multi-gigawatt portfolio of energy-backed data center campuses across the United States. Building on its roots as an energy company and Bitcoin miner, CleanSpark now develops infrastructure for both Bitcoin mining and AI/compute workloads, serving shareholders and investors as a publicly traded company.
About CleanSpark
CleanSpark is a market-leading data center developer with a national portfolio spanning six U.S. states, including Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Wyoming, Nevada, Mississippi, and Utah. The company controls power, land, and data centers, monetizing low-cost, high-reliability energy to produce compute — both for Bitcoin mining and increasingly for AI workloads. Its operating model follows a repeatable infrastructure-first process: procuring scalable energy, building data center capacity on schedule and budget, transforming power into compute capacity, and reinvesting capital to expand margins. CleanSpark reports metrics such as 1.8 GW of power under contract, 50 EH/s operational hashrate, and over 13,000 Bitcoin in holdings. Its primary stakeholders are shareholders and investors, as a Nasdaq-listed public company, and it serves the emerging demand for AI data center compute capacity in addition to its established Bitcoin mining operations.
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About the Role
You will be the owner-side engineering authority for the AI data center portfolio, setting the engineering standards, system architecture and design criteria that guide how facilities are designed, powered, cooled, built, commissioned and handed over to Operations. You will provide technical direction to the Director, Data Center Design and external consultants, lead utility and substation interfaces, run constructability reviews, own the commissioning program, and build and mentor the in-house engineering team. You report to the VP, Projects. The role may involve operating a company vehicle or traveling between job sites.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline
- 15+ years of progressive experience in design and engineering of data center, mission-critical or large-scale power and industrial facilities, including at least 5 years in senior technical leadership
- Deep knowledge of data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure for high-density compute
- Experience defining redundancy and resilience topologies
- Hands-on experience with utility interconnection, substation design and energization planning for large loads
- Experience leading commissioning (Levels 1–5 / integrated systems testing) and facility turnover
- Proven ability to lead engineering consultants, contractors and internal technical staff
- Strong constructability judgment
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be insurable under CleanSpark's vehicle insurance policy
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain AI data center engineering standards, Basis of Design and design criteria across electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, controls, telecom and site disciplines
- Define and approve system architecture for MV/LV electrical distribution, generation and backup power, UPS and air and liquid cooling, including redundancy targets
- Lead engineering interfaces with utilities and substation owners including load studies, interconnection, protection and coordination, metering and energization sequencing
- Provide technical direction to the Director, Data Center Design and external design consultants; review and approve studies, calculations, single-line diagrams and design deliverables
- Lead constructability, value engineering and design-for-schedule reviews; resolve technical issues, RFIs and design conflicts
- Own the owner-side commissioning program and sign off on energization and turnover readiness
- Lead operational readiness including handover documentation, as-builts, O&M requirements and maintainability criteria
- Evaluate and recommend equipment vendors and long-lead procurement specifications; support technical bid evaluations
- Assess engineering risk across the portfolio and drive mitigation into standards and project plans
- Support tenant and customer technical requirements
- Drive standardization and repeatability across sites
- Build and mentor the in-house engineering team
- Provide technical recommendations and updates to project and executive leadership