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title: 'Data Center Operation - Engineer at ECL'
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# Data Center Operation - Engineer at ECL

- **Company:** ECL
- **Location:** MT View, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/ecldc/a2c77d43-98d0-4994-a33b-0b4a9d2188ad

## Job description

ECL has just changed the GAME with the introduction of the world’s first Hydrogen powered off grid green data center with 99.999% uptime. There is massive demand for high-end Data Centers that can meet the demands that come with AI and Machine Learning requirements. What was only a futuristic idea that most thought was 10-20 years out is NOW a reality. Our end-to-end construction platform, modular architecture, is repeatable from 1-2MW’s meeting the needs of even larger data center sites. Imagine the opportunity at hand to build and deliver a Completely Green Power Generation System in this new era of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence disruptive technology advancements. How would you like to be on the ground floor of such a technological revolution. This is your chance to become part of something special as we are poised for hyper growth. ECL was founded by data center veterans from companies including Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Cisco, HPE and Bloom Energy.

Data Center Engineer Location: Mountain View Reports To: Director, Data Center Site Services

Position Overview The Data Center Engineer (KTLO) is responsible for maintaining the continuous operational readiness of all critical infrastructure systems supporting a mission-critical data center environment. This role ensures uptime, preserves system redundancy, and enforces procedural and safety discipline across electrical, mechanical, and supporting site systems. This is an operations-focused position centered on stability, execution, and compliance. The engineer executes approved procedures, supports structured change management activities, monitors system health, and maintains audit-ready documentation in a highly controlled, high-availability environment. The role requires working knowledge of electrical distribution systems, critical cooling infrastructure (including liquid cooling technologies), structured MOP/SOP/EOP governance, and regulated operational environments. Success depends on procedural rigor, sound escalation judgment, and disciplined risk mitigation.

## Key Responsibilities

Electrical Systems Operations

- Operate and maintain UPS systems, switchgear, transformers, PDUs, generators, fuel cells, and BESS (as applicable)
- Support switching activities under approved MOPs
- Monitor load distribution and system redundancy health
- Validate restoration of redundancy following maintenance events
- Support incident response and recovery activities Mechanical & Cooling Systems
- Operate and maintain critical cooling systems (air and liquid-based)
- Support environments utilizing rear-door heat exchangers, CDUs, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems
- Monitor thermal performance, delta-T, flow rates, and capacity utilization
- Validate cooling system redundancy and leak detection mechanisms
- Assess operational impact of cooling system maintenance or failure conditions
- Validate system performance post-maintenance or change activity Change Management & Documentation
- Draft, review, and execute MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs
- Participate in risk assessments and pre-task planning
- Maintain accurate as-built documentation, labeling, and system diagrams
- Capture validation evidence including alarms, trend data, and post-event reporting Safety, Security & Compliance
- Enforce LOTO and electrical safety standards
- Support site access control and vendor oversight
- Maintain audit readiness aligned with SOC 2 / ISO 27001 controls
- Participate in emergency response and disaster recovery exercises

## Qualifications

- 3+ years of experience in mission-critical facilities or data center operations
- Working knowledge of medium and low voltage electrical systems
- Experience with critical cooling infrastructure
- Experience supporting liquid cooling systems (rear-door heat exchangers, CDU-based systems, or direct-to-chip environments) preferred
- Familiarity with structured change management processes (MOP/SOP/EOP)
- Experience in audited or regulated environments preferred
- Experience with alternative energy systems (fuel cells, BESS, microgrid environments) a plus
- Ability to work in a 24/7 operational environment

Core Competencies

- Strong procedural discipline
- Calm and methodical under pressure
- Detail-oriented documentation practices
- Clear communication and sound escalation judgment
- Commitment to safety and operational integrity

## About ECL

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL) operates the world's leading programmable, remote-controlled life science research laboratory, enabling scientists to design, execute, and analyze wet-lab experiments entirely from the cloud, 24/7/365.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States (with an additional office in South San Francisco, CA)
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Founded by scientists from Emerald Therapeutics (the culture page states, "ECL was founded by scientists, for scientists")

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Biotechnology Research / Cloud Laboratory Infrastructure (Life Sciences)
- **Target customers**: B2B — pharmaceutical R&D, biotech startups, Contract Research Organizations (CROs), academic research labs, diagnostics research, consumer products R&D, and material science teams
- **Mission**: To "build a system that sweeps aside the daily grind scientists face in the laboratory and allows the day-to-day work to center on orchestrating science" — accelerating progress in pharmaceutical research, materials science, medical diagnostics, and agriculture by removing the physical and operational barriers of traditional labs.

## Products & Services
- **ECL® Cloud Laboratory**: A fully software-controlled, highly automated life science research facility equipped with over **200 different instrument models** (HPLC, FPLC, GC, Mass Spectrometers, NMR, PCR, qPCR, ddPCR, ELISA, SPR/BLI, Western Blots, Flow Cytometers/FACS, and more). Operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with on-demand access to instrumentation, samples, and data.
- **ECL Command Center®**: A unified software interface and data analysis platform with **4,500+ functions**, including advanced machine learning, image processing, and multi-dimensional analysis. This single interface controls the entire experimental workflow from cradle to grave.
- **ECL Constellation®**: An automated knowledge base that saves and annotates all experimental methods and data with complete metadata to **ALCOA+ standards**, ensuring data integrity and model-quality outputs. Eliminates the need for separate ELN, LIMS, LES/MES, QMS, and ERP systems by consolidating them into one coherent package.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **$20M annual revenue**; **$92.1M total funding** across 5 prior funding rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sapphire Ventures (strong talent-flow connection signals an investor/partner relationship)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+17.9% YoY** (+31 people) to **167 employees**
  - Active job postings up **+200% month-over-month** (9 current openings)
  - LinkedIn following grew **+12.3% YoY** to 8,037 followers
  - Talent pulled from top sources: Carnegie Mellon University (14), Amazon (7), Emerald Therapeutics (7), Natera (6), Stanford University (6)
  - Workforce distributed across United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched instrument breadth**: 200+ instrument models under one roof and one software interface — a single destination for nearly any in vitro biology or chemistry experiment.
- **Bridging automation and manual techniques**: ECL uniquely automates "automation-unfriendly" techniques (stock solution generation, solid handling, rotovaping, speedvacing, lyophilization) to the same scriptable, push-button reproducible standard as liquid handlers and robotic workcells.
- **Data integrity built in**: Full ALCOA+ metadata capture and verification ensures every experimental method and dataset is model-quality — a critical requirement for regulated pharma and CMC workflows.
- **Fully consolidated stack**: Replaces ELN, LIMS, LES/MES, QMS, and ERP systems with one integrated platform, reducing tool sprawl for client organizations.
- **Always-on global access**: 24/7/365 on-demand availability removes geographic and temporal constraints, enabling remote science from anywhere on Earth.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening adoption in **Pharmaceutical R&D, Biotech R&D, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK), and Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC)** workflows.
- Supporting **AI-driven laboratory research** by producing standardized, high-integrity datasets suitable for machine learning.
- Expanding enterprise/university partnerships through dedicated facilities built and operated by ECL, alongside flexible academic and subscription account models.

## Why Work Here
- **Employer Rating**: **4.2/5.0** based on 116 reviews — Career: **4.3**, Culture: **4.0**, Compensation: **3.7**, Work-Life: **3.5** ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab))
- **Equity**: Offers company equity as part of total rewards ([builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab))
- **Mission-driven culture**: Founded by scientists for scientists; a vision centered on giving scientists "unprecedented leverage and autonomy" and sweeping away the daily grind of lab work ([emeraldcloudlab.com](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/company-culture/our-culture/))
- **High-growth environment**: Year-over-year headcount growth of ~18%, with roles across scientific operations, automation, IT, and engineering
- **Notable open roles**: Automation Engineer, Scientific Operations Engineer I, Sr. Manager of Manufacturing Operations, Laboratory Operator I/II/III, Laboratory Operations Shift Manager, Biomedical Equipment Engineer, IT Operations Engineer, Laboratory Supervisor ([lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ecldc))
- **Remote-friendly philosophy**: The core product is remote lab access, and workforce data shows distributed presence across US, Canada, UK, and China — though lab and operations roles are likely Austin-based
- **Strong alumni network**: Former employees have gone on to Genentech (9), Thermo Fisher Scientific (5), 10x Genomics (5), and Agilent Technologies (4)

## Sources
1. [emeraldcloudlab.com — Home](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/)
2. [emeraldcloudlab.com — Careers](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/careers/)
3. [emeraldcloudlab.com — Our Culture](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/company-culture/our-culture/)
4. [linkedin.com — Emerald Cloud Lab Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab)
5. [builtin.com — Emerald Cloud Lab Careers, Perks + Culture](https://builtin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab)
6. [lever.co — ECL Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/ecldc)

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