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Electrical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering

Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America

$116,800 - $160,000 Full-time

Responsible for designing resilient and cost-effective electrical distribution systems for global data centers from concept to construction. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams, reviewing equipment submittals, and supporting site commissioning and turnover.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for designing resilient and cost-effective electrical distribution systems for global data centers from concept to construction. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams, reviewing equipment submittals, and supporting site commissioning and turnover.

Requirements

  • Requires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 4+ years of experience in mission-critical facilities like data centers or power plants. A Professional Engineer (PE) license and experience with building codes and construction drawings are preferred.

Benefits

  • Sign-on payments
  • Restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Prescription insurance
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance
  • Supplemental life plans
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Mental Health Support
  • Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave

Key Skills

Electrical engineering Power distribution design Data center electrical systems Building code compliance Construction drawing interpretation Site commissioning and turnover Project management Cross‑functional collaboration Vendor submittal review AutoCAD Revit PE (Professional Engineer) licensing Electrical load calculations Microsoft Office Suite Technical documentation Problem solving Leadership Risk assessment Budget oversight Continuous improvement

About Amazon Web Services (aws)

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

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