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The exact titles we place, one page each.
Requisitions are written in titles, not disciplines. Each page covers what that specific title is accountable for, the variants employers post it under, directional 2026 pay, how it differs from the seat next to it, and how to screen it.
Critical Facilities Engineer
Critical Facilities Engineer titles.
A critical facilities engineer operates and maintains the power and cooling plant that keeps a data hall live, and carries the judgment call when something fails at 3am. It is the highest-volume hard-to-fill seat in the industry because the skill is built on a live site over years and cannot be certified into existence.
$62,000 - $82,000 and up
Critical Environment Technician
A critical environment technician performs planned maintenance and monitored work inside live data hall power and cooling systems, usually under a written MOP and under an engineer's authority. It is the most common entry point into critical facilities work and the title most often confused with critical facilities engineer.
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$150,000 - $185,000 and up
Chief Engineer (Data Center)
A data center chief engineer owns the operating plant of a site: the maintenance program, the vendor bench, the roster and ultimately the uptime record. It is a small pool because the credential is a delivered site history, and the people who have it are rarely on the market.
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Or read the full critical facilities engineer discipline guide.
Commissioning Agent (CxA)
Commissioning Agent (CxA) titles.
A commissioning agent verifies that the electrical and mechanical systems in a data center actually perform as designed, from factory witness through integrated systems testing at full load. It is the hardest seat in infrastructure hiring because the qualifying experience only exists on projects that have already energized, and the people who have it are booked out a year ahead.
$105,000 - $135,000 and up
Commissioning Engineer
A commissioning engineer executes the electrical or mechanical scripts that prove a data center performs as designed, from factory witness through Level 5 integrated systems testing. The title is used interchangeably with commissioning agent by some owners, but engineer-titled seats usually sit closer to the discipline-specific test execution than to overall program management.
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$150,000 - $185,000 and up
Commissioning Manager
A commissioning manager owns the commissioning program for a site or a portfolio: the plan, the script set, the team, the schedule and the owner relationship through turnover. The seat is hired when the volume of testing has outgrown a single agent, and it is usually filled by a senior CxA moving into program accountability.
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Or read the full commissioning agent (cxa) discipline guide.
Data Center Technician
Data Center Technician titles.
A data center technician handles the hands-on work inside the data hall and the supporting plant: hardware, cabling, rounds, escorts and first-line response. It is the highest-volume seat in the industry, which makes it the one where roster design and shift differential decide your fill rate more than any sourcing tactic.
$48,000 - $65,000 and up
Data Center Operations Technician
A data center operations technician handles the physical layer of the data hall: server and network hardware installs, break-fix, cabling, decommissions and ticket-driven remote hands. It is the highest-volume hire in the industry and the one where local supply, not pay, usually decides whether the roster fills.
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$45,000 - $60,000 and up
Structured Cabling Technician
A structured cabling technician installs, terminates, tests and documents the copper and fiber plant that every deployment depends on. When a build slips at the last mile, it is usually cabling capacity and test documentation, not equipment, that caused it.
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Or read the full data center technician discipline guide.
MEP Coordinator
MEP Coordinator titles.
An MEP coordinator manages the interface between mechanical, electrical and plumbing trades on a data center build, resolving clashes before they become field rework and keeping installation sequenced against the commissioning dates. It is a schedule-protection role, which is why an empty one shows up as delay long before it shows up as a hiring problem.
$140,000 - $175,000 and up
MEP Manager
An MEP manager owns mechanical, electrical and plumbing coordination across a data center build: model coordination, submittals, trade sequencing and the interface with commissioning. The seat is filled when a program's coordination load exceeds what a single coordinator can hold, and it is judged on whether the trades hit the milestone without rework.
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$85,000 - $110,000 and up
BIM / VDC Coordinator
A BIM/VDC coordinator owns the federated model on a data center build and drives clash detection and resolution between the mechanical, electrical, structural and controls trades. On high-density builds the model is the sequencing tool, so this seat directly affects field rework and schedule.
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Or read the full mep coordinator discipline guide.
Data Center Construction Project Manager
Data Center Construction Project Manager titles.
A data center construction project manager owns delivery of a building or campus against a fixed energization date, coordinating design, contractors, long-lead equipment and the commissioning sequence. The hire is judged on one thing that is hard to fake: how many sites they have actually taken to energization.
$155,000 - $195,000 and up
Owner's Project Manager
An owner's project manager represents the capital owner across design, construction and turnover, holding the general contractor and the design team to scope, budget and schedule. The differentiator against a GC-side PM is authority: this seat decides and approves rather than executes and reports.
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$135,000 - $170,000 and up
Construction Superintendent (Data Center)
A data center construction superintendent runs the physical site day to day: trade sequencing in the field, safety, quality and the daily schedule that the project manager reports on. On hyperscale programs the seat is usually traveling or rotational, and rotation terms decide acceptance as often as the base salary does.
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Or read the full data center construction project manager discipline guide.
GPU Cluster Engineer
GPU Cluster Engineer titles.
A GPU cluster engineer builds and operates large accelerated compute fleets, covering scheduling, interconnect, storage throughput, thermal behavior and node health at scale. The pool of people who have genuinely run thousands of GPUs in production is small enough to name, so the search is a targeted market operation rather than a pipeline exercise.
$150,000 - $200,000 and up
HPC / AI Infrastructure Engineer
An HPC or AI infrastructure engineer builds and operates the compute, interconnect and storage layer that training and inference workloads run on. The people who have genuinely operated thousands of accelerators in production are few enough to name, so this is a targeted market operation rather than a pipeline exercise.
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$165,000 - $210,000 and up
AI Network Engineer (InfiniBand / RoCE)
An AI network engineer designs and operates the high-speed fabric, InfiniBand or RoCE, that lets thousands of accelerators behave like one machine. Training throughput is usually lost in the fabric rather than in the compute, which is why this seat is the scarcest specialization in AI infrastructure hiring.
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Or read the full gpu cluster engineer discipline guide.
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