Senior Mechanical Design Engineer — Data Center Systems

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

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking an experienced Senior Mechanical Engineer to join a global data center engineering team responsible for design and continuous innovation within our expanding data center footprint. This role can be based in Seattle or Herndon, VA.

You will own the design of resilient, cost-effective mechanical systems to achieve world-class uptime, drive improvements, and communicate technical direction to Sr. Management.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience.
• Experience researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods of data center equipment and facilities.
• Professional Engineering or Architectural License (preferred).
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region.
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.

Responsibilities

• Work in a cross-disciplinary setting with ability to influence and drive others.
• Advises peer engineers and management team.
• Deep-dive and perform root cause analysis.
• Make technical trade-offs between short-term project goals and long-term business needs.
• Develop integrated systems extending the life of data center infrastructure products.
• Simplify, optimize and lower costs of data center mechanical and associated sub components.
• Collaborate with internal and external ecosystem partners to design and develop new data center product solutions.
• Support field engineering and data center operation teams for performing root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions.
• Leverage economy of scale through standardization and modularization of data center products.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise to peers, senior management and partner teams.
• Develop business justification and narratives to promote new concepts and ideas.
• Lead key initiatives for the organization while demonstrating complete ownership.
• Work with global suppliers and manufacturers to specify appropriate mechanical and associated sub components.
• Provide product design support to other team members.
• Writing functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestic and internationally for up to 25% of the year.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking an experienced Senior Mechanical Engineer to join a global data center engineering team responsible for design and continuous innovation within our expanding data center footprint. This role can be based in Seattle or Herndon, VA.

You will own the design of resilient, cost-effective mechanical systems to achieve world-class uptime, drive improvements, and communicate technical direction to Sr. Management.