Senior Data Center Electrical Engineer - Innovative Power

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 137,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

A Senior Electrical Engineer role at Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States (Austin, TX) focuses on electrical design for data centers, ensuring uptime and cost efficiency through collaboration with utilities, vendors, and site teams.

You will drive designs from concept to permit/construction document sets, validate performance, and support site selection, commissioning, and turnover while enabling continuous learning and innovation at AWS scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities (data centers, power generation, or similar)
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field is required
• Knowledge of critical data center/mission critical mechanical and electrical equipment
• Experience in data center/mission critical design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance
• Experience researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods for data center equipment and facilities

Responsibilities

• Data center electrical designs and collaboration with other disciplines to create a construction document set.
• Creation of designs which meet or exceed our quality requirements and fall within our budgetary requirements.
• Work with local agencies having jurisdiction to ensure compliance with federal, state and municipal requirements and building codes.
• Review and approval of equipment submittals.
• Define project scope and provide technical support for information requests prior to, and during construction phases.
• Work with commissioning teams to properly test and validate installation, operation, and performance of electrical systems.
• Ability to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.
• Travel to sites for site review and work with onsite field engineers, as well as provide engineering evaluations, electrical systems audits, and startup as needed.
• Having fun and offering creative, out of the box solutions.

Skills

Electrical design

Data center knowledge

Construction documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

A Senior Electrical Engineer role at Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States (Austin, TX) focuses on electrical design for data centers, ensuring uptime and cost efficiency through collaboration with utilities, vendors, and site teams.

You will drive designs from concept to permit/construction document sets, validate performance, and support site selection, commissioning, and turnover while enabling continuous learning and innovation at AWS scale.