Rack Build Technician (Liquid Cooling)
Location
Irving, TX
Wage
$25.41 – $31.77/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location
Irving, TX
Wage
$25.41 – $31.77/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
As the Rack Build Technician (Liquid Cooling), you will support the assembly, integration, testing, and deployment preparation of liquid-cooled data center rack solutions designed for AI, HPC, and enterprise environments. This role involves hands-on rack builds and hardware installation while adhering to operational, quality, and safety procedures.
At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, whose middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 360 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 60% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
We're tracking 26 other active welding openings in Irving, TX right now, from 23 different employers. 14 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,307 other active welding openings from 707 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Irving, or widen the search to Texas.
The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Zachry Group (24), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), and Austin Industries (19). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $82/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and La Porte at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Rack Build Technician (Liquid Cooling) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.