Fiber Engineer

Hiring: AI Factory Fiber Cabling Engineer | Colorado

We are looking for an experienced Fiber Cabling Engineer / Infrastructure Deployment Specialist to support a large-scale AI Factory / GPU cluster deployment in Colorado .

🔹 Project Details

• Location: Colorado – significant onsite presence required
• Duration: 3–6 months, with potential for project-based/freelance engagement
• Start: Late October / Early November 2026
• Scale: ~20,000 GPUs
• Fiber Infrastructure: ~100,000 fiber runs
• Engagement: Contract / Project-based

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and oversee high-density fiber-optic cabling deployment.
• Manage fiber routing, pathways, patch panels, FDFs, and high-density connectivity.
• Review cabling drawings, rack elevations, cable schedules, and engineering documentation.
• Coordinate installation contractors and field technicians.
• Validate fiber polarity, labeling, routing, termination, and connectivity.
• Coordinate OTDR, insertion-loss, and optical-power testing .
• Troubleshoot fiber loss, polarity issues, damaged fibers, and physical-layer defects.
• Maintain as-built documentation, installation records, testing results, and punch lists.
• Support commissioning, cutover, and network connectivity validation.
• Ensure compliance with bend-radius, cable-management, pathway, safety, and quality requirements.

🔹 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in fiber optics, data center infrastructure, network infrastructure, or structured cabling .
• Strong experience with high-density fiber deployments .
• Experience in large-scale data centers, hyperscale environments, HPC, or AI/GPU infrastructure.
• Hands-on knowledge of fiber termination, splicing, patching, routing, labeling, and testing.
• Strong understanding of single-mode/multimode fiber, MPO/MTP, fiber polarity, patch panels, and FDFs .
• Experience reading cabling drawings, rack elevations, and pathway layouts.
• Experience coordinating multiple installation teams/contractors.
• Strong troubleshooting and field-deployment skills.

🔹 Preferred

• AI/GPU cluster or HPC deployment experience.
• Hyperscale data center construction/deployment experience.
• Experience with 10,000+ GPUs or tens of thousands of fiber connections .
• Knowledge of 400G/800G optical connectivity .
• BICSI or fiber-optic certifications.
• Experience with large-scale fiber certification/testing equipment