Principal AI Infrastructure Readiness Architect

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• We want someone with 10+ years in data center engineering, infrastructure architecture, or technical facility planning roles.
• We prefer proven experience with data center buildouts or retrofits, ideally involving AI infrastructure, HPC, or modular designs.
• We need strong working knowledge of MEP systems, utility coordination, and regional construction permitting.
• We need a deep understanding of power delivery, cooling systems (liquid and air), rack layouts, and high-density compute environments.
• We prefer experience with AI infrastructure such as NVIDIA H100/H200, AMD Instinct, DGX pods, or equivalent.
• We want familiarity with building codes and data center regulations across global regions, including EU sustainability directives and Middle East permitting cycles.
• We prefer experience collaborating with construction partners, colocation providers, or modular data center vendors such as Vertiv, Schneider, or Compass.
• We need the ability to lead dirt to doorknob infrastructure evaluations, guiding customers from concept through handoff.
• We value confidence in the field, including working on-site with customers, facility engineers, or CxOs.
• We consider familiarity with site audit tooling, Digital Twins, Visio/CAD, and BOM estimation a plus.

Responsibilities:

• We evaluate data center readiness for high-density AI deployments, including power capacity, cooling strategy, physical layout, and facility compliance.
• We lead greenfield and brownfield technical assessments to determine build vs. retrofit strategy and recommend best-fit design approaches.
• We collaborate with OEMs, facility owners, and build partners to ensure designs align with AI workload demands, construction feasibility, and site limitations.
• We guide and review data center designs with attention to MEP and construction permitting requirements across global regions.
• We shape and validate modular data center designs and pod configurations that support scalable AI growth.
• We develop and maintain reference architectures, playbooks, and BOM templates for site readiness and modular deployments.
• We conduct site audits and dirt to doorknob readiness reviews to determine infrastructure capability, cost implications, and project timeline risk.
• We stay current on international building codes, energy efficiency mandates, and data center compliance requirements, especially in the EU, UK, and Middle East.
• We contribute to Statements of Work, pre-sales proposals, and internal enablement on infrastructure design best practices.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Support
• Liquid

More:

We are hiring a Principal AI Infrastructure Readiness Architect, Pre-Sales for a full-time salaried role in UK/Europe, with travel up to 50% across the EU and UK for technical design workshops and on-site infrastructure assessments. We work at the frontlines of AI deployment, helping enterprises assess and shape the physical environments needed to support high-density AI workloads. In this field-facing role, we partner with global service providers, OEMs such as NVIDIA and Dell, construction partners, and facility stakeholders across the EU, UK, and Middle East. Our work influences strategic decisions, reference architectures, modular design strategies, and global facility planning guidance, and we also contribute to PE/VC board materials and strategy decks.

last updated 36 week of 2026