[Hiring] Data Center Solutions Architect-1 @Daikin Applied Americas

Role Description

The Solutions Architect is a senior technical leader within Daikin Applied’s Data Center of Excellence (CoE). This role leads the development of standardized reference architectures and drives technical strategy across the full data-center thermal value chain—from chip to chiller.

The Solutions Architect will have direct customer engagement and work closely with data center owners, developers, hyperscalers, integrators, and Neo-Cloud operators to shape design standards, influence solution selection, and guide purchasing decisions aligned with Daikin Data Center Solutions. This is a highly visible role that blends engineering depth with commercial impact.

This role directly enhances Daikin’s competitive position by:

• Strengthening market credibility and customer trust with best‑in‑class technical engagement.
• Increasing design wins through direct customer influence.
• Reducing technical and commercial risk via validated architectures and PoC testing.
• Accelerating product innovation through real‑world performance insights and solution leadership.

Qualifications

• BSc Mechanical, electrical, systems, industrial, or automation engineering.
• 10+ years’ experience.
• Technical expert in at least one major data center domain (mechanical systems, thermal cooling, controls, integration, or systems architecture), with the ability to think across domains at the system level.
• Experience in mission-critical infrastructure system design.
• Demonstrated expertise in liquid cooling integration and central plant architectures.
• Strong understanding of redundancy models and high-availability system design.
• Working knowledge of plant control strategies and integrated system operation.
• Demonstrated business acumen with experience evaluating architecture decisions through lifecycle cost, capital efficiency, operational impact, and market positioning.
• Experience conducting or contributing to structured technical and commercial trade studies.

Requirements

• Experience contributing to or governing formal reference architectures or system design standards.
• Exposure to AI-focused or high-density computing infrastructure.
• Experience supporting proof-of-concept validation, performance benchmarking, or interoperability testing.
• Familiarity with system modeling, energy analysis, or simulation tools.
• Experience presenting technical strategy to executive stakeholders.

Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plan options + dental and vision insurance.
• 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% of the next 2% of employee contributions.
• Company provided life insurance + optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees + 11 company-paid holidays.
• Vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state, and local law requires a faster accrual.
• Paid sick time in accordance with the federal, state, and local law.
• Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service.
• The typical annual base salary for this position ranges from 109K - 188.7K, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.