Senior Electrical Product Design Engineer - MV Power

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

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is hiring a Product Design Electrical Engineer with Medium Voltage switchgear and/or medium voltage transformer experience for our Electrical Products and Services team.

You will lead design and development of electrical distribution equipment for AWS datacenters, collaborating across internal and external groups to ensure safety, reliability, and cost effectiveness. The role requires 6+ years in data center environments, strong knowledge of MV equipment, and the

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience.
• Experience developing solutions and executing plans on complex projects.
• Experience in industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.

Responsibilities

• Lead new product design, development and qualification of critical electrical power distribution equipment for AWS datacenters with primary focus on MV switchgear and transformers.
• Develop Capex and Opex spending budgets taking into account development costs with vendors, prototyping needs, testing and specialized tooling requirements.
• Work with global suppliers and manufacturers to specify appropriate electrical equipment and components, ensuring tier 2-3 supply chain resiliency.
• Ensure compliance with UL, CSA, IEC and federal, state and municipal requirements and building codes across different countries through appropriate levels of testing.
• Validate design through prototype, pre-production and first-of-kind builds, conducting DFx and value engineering analysis through each step.
• Work with field engineering and commissioning teams to properly test and validate installation, operation, and performance of electrical products.
• Ability to provide support for manufacturing activities for the new products on concurrent projects in multiple geographical locations.
• Be a leader within the product development team as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.

Skills

MV switchgear

Medium voltage transformers

Electrical product design

Data center experience

Project leadership

DFx / value engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is hiring a Product Design Electrical Engineer with Medium Voltage switchgear and/or medium voltage transformer experience for our Electrical Products and Services team.

You will lead design and development of electrical distribution equipment for AWS datacenters, collaborating across internal and external groups to ensure safety, reliability, and cost effectiveness. The role requires 6+ years in data center environments, strong knowledge of MV equipment, and the