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Principal Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Data Center Design Engineering

Amazon 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Onsite $100,000 - $150,000 (AUD) Full-time Senior

Lead the electrical design of data centers across the APAC region, focusing on MV infrastructure, generators, and UPS systems. Collaborate with internal teams and local utilities to ensure compliance with regional codes and quality standards.

Responsibilities

  • Work with internal teams to understand and respond to evolving user requirements
  • Lead Data center electrical designs in collaboration with other disciplines to create a coordinated construction document set
  • Participate in site selection reviews
  • Critical Data Center equipment design including site-wide MV infrastructure, Generators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Switchgear, Transformers, and Earthing
  • Creation of designs which meet or exceed our quality requirements and fall within our budgetary requirements
  • Work with regional vendors and manufacturers to specify the appropriate electrical equipment
  • Work with local utilities to understand and define site utility requirements
  • Work with local agencies having jurisdiction to ensure compliance with IEC requirements, the various APAC-wide design codes, and other jurisdictional requirements
  • 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
  • Be a leader within the global group as well as within internal and external teams that support Amazon’s data centers

Requirements

  • Comprehensive understanding of the various code requirements across the APAC region across critical MV and LV electrical equipment
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent, or 10+ years of electrical engineering experience
  • Cross Discipline Design Coordination Experience

Benefits

  • Inclusive Team Culture
  • Mentorship & Career Growth
  • Work/Life Balance
  • Endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources
  • Flexibility as part of our working culture

Key Skills

Electrical engineering Data center design MV and LV electrical equipment Cross Discipline Design Coordination Project management Leadership Communication Collaboration Problem-solving Critical thinking Creativity Innovation Time management Organization Attention to detail Quality assurance Budgeting Cost reduction Reliability Maintainability IEC requirements APAC-wide design codes Jurisdictional requirements Equipment specification Utility management Commissioning Testing Validation Auditing Startup

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1."​ What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fa

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