Site Infrastructure Engineer
San Mateo, United States · On-site · Full-time
- Posted 1mo ago
- From Shield AI’s careers page
- Location
- San Mateo, United States
- Work mode
- On-site
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Engineering
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Job Description:
Shield AI is seeking a Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer to plan, design, document, and support physical IT infrastructure across offices, engineering facilities, labs, manufacturing environments, and data centers.
As part of the Cloud & Infrastructure team within Enterprise Operations, this role will help deliver scalable and reliable site infrastructure, including rack layouts, structured cabling, power and cooling capacity, MDF/IDF design, DCIM, equipment sizing, and infrastructure documentation. You will partner closely with Network, Systems, Cloud, Security, Facilities, Workplace, and external vendors to support new site buildouts, expansions, relocations, and data center deployments.
What you'll do:
- Plan and design physical IT infrastructure for offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers.
- Lead and support new site buildouts, office expansions and relocations, data center deployments, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure moves.
- Develop rack layouts, MDF/IDF requirements, equipment placement plans, and infrastructure bills of materials.
- Create and maintain accurate rack elevations, physical connectivity diagrams, equipment records, cable documentation, and DCIM data across office and data center environments.
- Support capacity planning across rack space, site and data center power, cooling, cabling, and equipment growth.
- Administer and improve DCIM/IPAM/CMDB platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Device42, or equivalent.
- Establish and maintain physical infrastructure documentation and labeling standards to ensure environments remain accurately documented throughout their lifecycle.
- Review floor plans, low-voltage drawings, vendor designs, proposals, and statements of work.
- Coordinate with architects, contractors, colocation providers, carriers, OEMs, and field-service vendors.
- Partner with Network, Systems, and Cloud Engineering teams to ensure site and data center infrastructure supports compute, storage, connectivity, wireless, security, hybrid connectivity, and public cloud requirements.
- Identify capacity constraints, documentation gaps, and opportunities to improve infrastructure standards and processes.
- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams as needed.
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About Shield AI
AI systems for defense and autonomous aircraftShield AI develops AI-enabled aircraft and autonomous systems, including Hivemind, to support service members and civilians.
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