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title: 'Senior Manager, Data Center Design at Radiant'
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# Senior Manager, Data Center Design at Radiant

- **Company:** Radiant
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radiant/5178e7ca-6eb3-4053-bbcc-5b8f6dcf7234

## 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.

## About Radiant

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Radiant is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates AI factories combining utility-scale powered land, long-term capital, and a proprietary software platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (portfolio company of Brookfield’s AI Infrastructure Fund)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2026 (formed via merger of Brookfield’s Radiant entity with Ori Industries)
- **Founders**: Mahdi Yahya (Founder & former CEO of Ori, now President of Radiant)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing / Data Centers
- **Target customers**: Sovereign governments, large enterprises, telecommunications providers (B2B, Enterprise, Sovereign)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Building the utility model for AI compute — ubiquitous, always on and offering superior economics. That model will power the intelligence revolution — giving every nation, enterprise and network the foundation to build what comes next.” [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **Radiant AI Cloud**: On-demand AI compute platform offering pre-configured bare metal offerings, GPU instances, and AI-as-a-Service offerings including Inference, Fine-Tuning, Model Registry, Kubernetes, and high-performance Storage.
- **AI Factories (Sovereign/Enterprise Deployments)**: Purpose-built, vertically integrated AI data centers built on the NVIDIA DSX reference design, offering utility-grade economics under long-term contracts for sovereign governments and select enterprises.
- **Powered Land Portfolio**: Access to over 5 GW live and 45 GW of renewable generation capacity globally — enabling rapid deployment of massive AI compute clusters at 20% below-market power costs through a mix of hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass, and dispatchable natural gas. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/)
- **Proprietary Software Platform**: Dependency-free, lightweight architecture built on engineering first principles, featuring intelligent scheduling, automated node management, secure multi-tenancy, and a distributed control panel. Scales consistently from 10K to 100K+ GPUs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed as a private entity. Backed by Brookfield with access to a $100 billion investment program for AI Infrastructure (Brookfield AI Infrastructure Fund).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding — Backed by Brookfield, with “more than $100 billion in deployable capital” available to the fund. Radiant is the first compute deployment vehicle and second seed investment for Brookfield’s AI Infrastructure Fund. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/press-release-launch)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Brookfield (global alternative asset manager), NVIDIA (Cloud Partner — using NVIDIA Blackwell, GB200 NVL72, and upcoming Rubin architectures)
- **Growth Signals**: Recently launched (February 24, 2026) via merger of Radiant and Ori Industries. Targeting the multi-trillion market for integrated AI factories over the next decade. Rapidly expanding Ori’s integrated AI Cloud assets with the latest NVIDIA platforms.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Model**: Uniquely combines capital (Brookfield), powered land (5 GW live, 45 GW renewable capacity), proprietary software (built from first principles), and compute (NVIDIA partnership) into a single platform — “from silicon to service.”
- **Cost Advantage**: 20% below-market power costs through a balanced energy mix.
- **Capital Advantage**: Direct pipeline to $100B+ investment program, enabling massive, long-duration projects that competitors cannot match.
- **NVIDIA DSX Reference Design**: First-mover advantage in deploying at scale using NVIDIA’s latest architectures (Blackwell, Rubin) with full design and operational ownership.
- **Sovereign Focus**: Positioned as a partner for nations seeking AI infrastructure independence — a growing geopolitical priority.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale AI Factories Globally**: Rapidly deploy AI compute capacity using the NVIDIA DSX reference design for sovereign governments, enterprises, and telecoms under long-term contracts.
- **Expand the Ori Global AI Cloud**: Continue to grow the on-demand AI cloud for customers needing rapid deployment and flexible capacity.
- **Maintain Vertical Integration**: Control every layer from capital and energy to software and hardware, ensuring operational autonomy and superior economics.
- **Long-term Planning**: Aligned with the long-term demands of the AI economy — thinking in decades, not quarters.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Outcome oriented” — the company values people who get things done, dream bigger, think in longer timelines, and build the assets that make every other ambition possible. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible work options, including remote and hybrid arrangements.
- **Compensation**: Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives and meaningful stock options.
- **Benefits**: Learning and development support, family-friendly policies with paid parental leave, generous vacation and company holidays.
- **Engineering Culture**: Led by CTO Chris Galloway (previously CTO at Ori, with experience at Broadcom/Symantec) and VP Product Joao Coelho (former AWS Solutions Architect, co-founder of open-source Multy). The team is building a proprietary, dependency-free software platform from first principles — appealing to engineers who want deep technical ownership.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Early-stage (launched Feb 2026) with massive capital backing — employees can shape the company’s trajectory and work on infrastructure at unprecedented scale (10K to 100K+ GPUs).
- **Hiring**: Actively hiring across every department. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)

## Sources
1. [radiant.co - Homepage](https://radiant.co/)
2. [radiant.co - About Page](https://radiant.co/about)
3. [radiant.co - Press Release Launch](https://radiant.co/press-release-launch)
4. [Tech.eu - Radiant and Ori Merge](https://tech.eu/2026/02/24/radiant-and-ori-merge-to-deliver-sovereign-ai-cloud-at-utility-scale/)
5. [radiant.co - Blog: The Age of Abundance in AI](https://radiant.co/blog/the-age-of-abundance-in-ai)

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