# Senior Manager, Data Center Design

- Company: [Radiant](<https://jobstar.asia/company/radiant>)
- Location: London
- Remote: Yes
- Team: Development
- Employment type: Full Time
- Posted: August 26, 2026

## Job description

**Company Overview:**

Radiant is redefining how AI infrastructure is built.

We design and operate AI-native cloud platforms engineered for sovereignty, performance, and scale. Our infrastructure powers GPU-native workloads, multi-tenant control planes, and high-performance AI systems designed for the most demanding environments.

We are not building a generic cloud. We are building purpose-built AI infrastructure — from powered land, to compute, to software.

As we scale, we're building this organisation from the ground up. We're looking for people who'd rather build the playbook than inherit one — who are comfortable doing the work themselves as well as directing others, and who can adapt as fast as our strategy does. This is a startup model: attitude and adaptability matter more to us than years of experience or the size of team you've previously managed.

This is a cross-functional role requiring strong technical, commercial, and delivery capabilities, with exposure to executive stakeholders and EPCs, design consultants, OEMs, and every regional Project Director relying on one consistent design standard.

**What You'll Do**

You'll set and personally hold the line on Radiant's data center design standard for electrical, mechanical, civil and architectural design across every live project. In the early stages, you'll be doing a meaningful share of the engineering yourself, not just reviewing it.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Design**

* Write and maintain the electrical, mechanical, civil and BIM design standards yourself - there isn't an existing standard to inherit.
* Personally review and mark up design packages from consultants and contractors, not just sign them off.

**Hands-on delivery**

* Get into the detail on switchgear, cooling strategy (air and liquid) and structural design for GPU-density loads.
* Sit in design workshops and RFI resolution directly with EPCs and consultants - you're expected to be in the room, not one step removed.
* Write technical requirements and personally review technical responses from suppliers and contractors.

**Team build**

* Build out electrical, mechanical, civil and BIM leads as the portfolio grows - but expect to be the most senior technical resource on more than one project at a time in year one.

**What You Bring:**

* Attitude matters more to us here than number of years of experience.
* Strong hands-on design experience in electrical or mechanical engineering for data centres or similarly complex mission-critical facilities.
* Comfort producing or heavily marking up design output yourself, not just directing others who do.
* Working knowledge of high-density GPU cooling (air and liquid) and power distribution/redundancy topologies.
* Ability to set a standard from a blank page - you won't be handed one.
* Confidence pushing back on consultants and EPCs directly on technical substance.
* We care much more about how you think through a design problem than the number of years on your CV.
* Engineering degree (mechanical, electrical, or related discipline).

**Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):**

* Experience designing for both European and US markets and codes.
* Exposure to liquid cooling (DLC/CDU) design.
* Chartered engineer status or equivalent, though not required.

**Qualities we look for:**

* **Set the standard:** Every single day, you spot opportunities to constructively shake things up.
* **Inspire the change:** There's no blueprint for the future. You'll embrace challenges and change.
* **You're real and you're true to yourself:** We cherish and celebrate diversity so you'll feel right at home whoever you are and whoever you're talking to, you treat everyone the same.
* **Get stuck in:** You'd rather be building than overseeing. Our strategy will keep evolving, and so will you — attitude and adaptability matter more to us than a fixed playbook or a big team behind you.

## Apply

[Apply on Radiant](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radiant/5178e7ca-6eb3-4053-bbcc-5b8f6dcf7234>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/senior-manager-data-center-design-radiant-london-f9cb02f4297b84fa>
