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Datacenter Commissioning Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering

ByteDance

Office

Singapore

Full Time

Responsibilities

About the Team:
The Datacenter Infrastructure Engineering team supports the company's fast growth by building and operating hyperscale datacenters. The team manages the end to end lifecycle of server fleet, providing cloud solutions and various infrastructure services ensuring that they are scalable and are reliable.

About the Role:
The team is looking for candidates with strong technical infrastructure backgrounds and data center commissioning experience, passionate about engineering excellence, and providing effective and sustainable solutions with an eye to the future. Candidates need to understand the challenges associated with deploying and validating infrastructure at scale and have experience in designing systems. Candidates need further understanding of the global standard for commissioning, performance, availability, project management, contracting, design reviews. . The work you do will influence processes globally.

Responsibilities:
1. To participate and review in data center site selection and contractual evaluations and executions.
2. To participate and Review Data Center MEP Design and other necessary disciplines for new data center builds and data hall fit outs
3. Review data hall layout plans and perform test fits to validate server capacity plans and failover calculations
4. Scope out commissioning requirement and responsibility matrix exhibit in a contract with data center providers or developers during site selection and contracting stage.
5. Participate in construction QA/QC through the construction period of the project.
6. Participate in Testing and Commissioning reviews and discussions to determine required tests to verify design elements.
7. Collaborate with the FM team DC Engineering Operations to validate commissioning results, and prepare systems hand off to the FM DCEO team.
8. Support the DC Engineering FM team to become a Subject Matter Expert and understand how to overcome design limitations and risks.
9. Conduct a periodic Audit or Assessment to access the effectiveness and practicality of the design in-use on our data centers
10. Be our ambassador to explain data center infrastructure design to visitors
11. Based on CX lessons learned, to continually find ways to collaborate and break new ground to enhance MEP design to meet future needs.
12. Continually maintain positive and collaborative working relations with partner teams, vendors, teammates, and internal customers.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or relevant disciplines, and have at least 2 years of commissioning experience.
- Knowledge of standard power and cooling calculations necessary to determine capacity requirements (i.e., UTI, TIA-942, ASHRAE)
- Understand Power Redundancy and how it is implemented in design (i.e., 2N or N+1 Distributed Redundant)
- Experience with Cooling Redundancy and how Concurrent Maintainability is implemented in design (i.e, N+1 or N+2).
- Experience in the following areas: - Lead or influence a Design and Architect team to complete Data Center Conceptual>30%>60%>90% Detailed Design Process. - Practice Data Center Tiering Standards (i.e., TIA-942 Rated 3, or Uptime Tier 3) in a detailed design process. - Lead or influence a construction team to complete Data Hall fit-out experience, including IT services Coordination, Power and Cooling Planning. - Lead or influence a testing and commissioning team to perform L1 to L5 commissioning tests to validate the system design intent and resolve technical problems along the way.
- Mechanical and/or electrical engineering experience such as generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, UPS, electrical sub-distribution systems, etc.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with attention to clarity and detail.

Job Information

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Datacenter Commissioning Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering

Office

Singapore

Full Time

August 14, 2025

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ByteDance