Data Center Infrastructure Advisor (Freelance)

Berlin (Hybrid / On-site) | Freelance / Contract Basis | Loadwise.ai

About Loadwise

Data centers are rapidly growing electricity consumers, especially AI/HPC. Energy systems are more volatile with renewables. Loadwise connects data center infrastructure to energy markets and grid signals to optimize cost and carbon. The engagement incumbent tools were built for a stable grid; that grid is gone. We are building for volatility, flexibility demands, and AI-scale loads.

We seek a Data Center Infrastructure Advisor as the facility reality check for the platform—hands‑on experience in live facilities required. Typical engagement: ~3–5 days/month, flexible by phase.

What You’ll Work On

• Operational Grounding & Product Direction
• Review product/integration decisions from an operator perspective
• Define what “good” looks like for core integrations (cooling, power, automation)
• Help prioritize features by operational impact and feasibility
• Integration Acceleration
• Guide engineering through vendor quirks, undocumented APIs, and real‑world protocol behavior
• Design integration pathways fitting operational and security constraints
• Support early customer deployments and troubleshooting
• Customer & Partner Engagement
• Participate in technical customer conversations to accelerate trust
• Feed vendor ecosystem/operational insights into product and commercial decisions
• Example Problems
• Should UPS systems ever be cycled for DR or optimization?
• What telemetry is available from DCIM platforms (e.g., Schneider EcoStruxure, Vertiv)?
• How to adjust SLAs to enable flexibility without compromising reliability?

What We’re Looking For

• Data Center Operations
• Direct experience running/scaling live data center environments
• Familiarity with facility management systems
• Experience with power distribution, UPS, generators, cooling, redundancy
• Customer & SLA Perspective
• Understand how operations interact with uptime guarantees and SLAs (colo, hyperscale/cloud, HPC research, vertically integrated compute)
• Technical Breadth
• Read/reason about integration schematics, control sequences, system architectures
• Comfortable in architecture discussions with software engineers
• Collaboration & Mindset
• Explain operational realities clearly and challenge assumptions constructively
• Curiosity about software making DC infrastructure more efficient and responsive

What We Offer

Flexible Engagement: freelance/fractional; open to day rate, contract, or project-based.