Electrical Design Engineer

About the Role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Jr. Electrical Engineer to join a global engineering team responsible for the design and continuous innovation of our rapidly expanding data center footprint. You will design resilient, cost-effective electrical distribution systems to achieve world-class uptime for our customers. You will justify and communicate technical decisions to senior management and drive continuous advancements and improvements in designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Data center electrical designs and collaboration with other disciplines to create a construction document set.
• Creation of designs that meet or exceed quality requirements and fall within budgetary requirements.
• Work with local agencies 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.
• Offer creative, out-of-the-box solutions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Hands-on electrical design experience.
• Ability to design an electrical system.
• Understanding of critical equipment needs for a data center.
• Understanding of the constructability of varying designs.
• Capability of defining critical equipment specifications.
• Ability to work within a team and depend on others to accomplish work.
• Travel up to 20%: to data centers, yearly team off-sites, and vendor factory visits.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of mission critical facilities, especially data centers.
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations.
• Knowledge of commercial or industrial power systems or mechanical systems.
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production.
• Experience using a variety of web-based and other software tools for calculation and data processing.