Sustainable Data Center Design Manager

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com . What You’ll Do: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sustainable Data Center Design Manager to lead sustainability-driven design initiatives across our data center construction projects and engineering design. This cross-functional role sits within the Data Center Engineering team but will collaborate closely with Corporate Sustainability to ensure alignment with our long-term energy, carbon-reduction, and resource-efficiency goals. About the Role: The focus of this role is on embedding sustainability into data center design, ensuring that projects integrate onsite renewables, energy-efficiency strategies, low-carbon materials, water-conservation measures, and alternative refrigerants. The successful candidate will drive cost justification, technical evaluation, and implementation of solar, battery storage, grid interactivity, high-efficiency mechanical and electrical systems, and lifecycle carbon analysis within data center projects. Acting as the primary technical lead for sustainable design strategies, this individual will work closely with architects, engineers, sustainability consultants, and construction teams to ensure that sustainability best practices are incorporated from concept to construction. Travel required to various data center sites and relevant industry conferences as needed. In this role, you will: Act as the bridge between corporate sustainability goals and data center design execution, ensuring that high-level sustainability objectives translate into practical, technically sound design solutions. Collaboration Technical Leadership – Partner with MEP engineers, architects, sustainability consultants, and construction teams to integrate sustainable solutions into data center designs, ensuring alignment with engineering specifications and sustainability objectives. Energy Efficiency Design – Lead efforts to optimize energy efficiency, integrating technologies like AI-driven predictive modeling, automated energy management systems, and smart grid capabilities for operational savings. Onsite Renewables Evaluation – Evaluate and, where feasible, implement solar PV, wind energy, and battery storage systems, analyzing their technical, financial, and environmental impacts. Grid Interactivity Demand Response – Design data centers with a focus on energy resilience, including peak shaving, demand response, and microgrid capabilities that support the local grid. Lifecycle Carbon Analysis – Conduct carbon lifecycle assessments of design options, helping to identify and implement strategies that reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions. Water Conservation Design – Develop water-efficient systems, integrating renewable-powered cooling technologies and exploring innovative solutions like rainwater harvesting and closed-loop water systems. Sustainable Materials Construction – Recommend the use of sustainable, low-carbon building materials and ensure compliance with green building standards such as LEED. Alternative Refrigerants – Implement and advocate for low-GWP refrigerants and other sustainable HVAC solutions that reduce the environmental impact of data center cooling. AI Automation in Design – Utilize AI tools and automation technologies to optimize building designs for energy efficiency, water conservation, and operational flexibility. Sustainability Certifications – Ensure designs meet or exceed the requirements for certifications like LEED, WELL, ENERGY STAR, and o ... (truncated, view full listing at source)