Power Generation Engineer, AWS Global Energy

About the role

Are you passionate about large power infrastructure systems? Do you love to innovate, discover, and apply your knowledge to advance world-class systems? Do you get excited about the idea of pushing the boundaries of power system availability? We are seeking an experienced electrical engineer with a background in power infrastructure design, including power generation to support our growing requirements for novel solutions to delivering power to AWS data centers.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our data centers are industry leading examples of innovation in the areas of data center critical infrastructure design, space utilization, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness. We are known for our speed to market, reliability, and lowest total cost of ownership. Our Engineers are on the forefront of creating and delivering the most innovative products to our customers and are known for being a diverse and upbeat team that is continually improving the world of compute.

As a Power Generation Engineer, you will serve as a technical lead within the Power Generation Solutions team for the evaluation and development of primary, temporary, and backup power designs. You will own challenging and ambiguous problems that span multiple teams and drive technical decisions that impact AWS’ global infrastructure strategy.

Responsibilities

• Developing designs and analysis of different power generation sources to serve data center loads in grid connected or grid independent configurations
• Support the development of power generation configurations for different applications, including primary, temporary, or backup power
• Understanding the design and functionality of the global data center fleet, including existing, upcoming, and unique site designs
• Interpreting, evaluating, and developing Single Line Drawings (SLD), engineering drawings, equipment submittals, equipment specifications documentation, and performance data to advance concepts and solutions
• Providing feedback to the Design Engineering teams for design revisions for new data centers as well as to Field Engineering for operational data center upgrades
• Understanding grid interconnection standards and requirements, including working on microgrid design and controls, and distributed energy resources
• Working on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions
• Being a leader within the group as well as within other teams

About The Team

The Power Generation Solutions team creates and delivers product and engineering solutions in power and energy to help advance AWS’ mission to deliver world-leading cloud services. Our solutions are guided by four main principles; unlocking capacity growth, maintaining high infrastructure uptime, minimizing infrastructure costs, and advancing our net-zero carbon Climate Pledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 3+ years of experience with leading power infrastructure designs in complex mission critical facilities combined with 3+ years of design or operational support for power generation infrastructure systems
• In-depth knowledge of continuous operating redundant electrical systems and power infrastructure
• Experience and knowledge of power generations equipment, systems, controls, including, but not limited to; diesel generators, distributed energy resources, gas turbines, battery energy storage systems
• Ability to interpret wiring diagrams, single and three-line diagrams, P&ID drawings, submittals, sequence of operations, and mechanical and electrical drawing packages

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer License
• Experience with building codes and regulations for your region
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• 6+ years of direct experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of mission critical data centers or power infrastructure
• Familiarity with power flow studies, substation design, protection coordination, and utility interconnection requirements, emerging power generation and energy storage technologies, and power distribution for large scale mission critical facilities

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. The base salary range for this position is $116,800.00 - $160,000.00 USD annually, depending on location, and includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).