Principal Power Systems Engineer, AWS Global Energy

About the role

The Principal Power Systems Engineer supports AWS' mission to deliver world-leading cloud services by providing technical input to realize a shared vision and strategy with partner teams. This role involves creating and delivering product and engineering solutions in power and energy to advance AWS' mission.

Responsibilities

• Understand current and emerging scalable power and energy technologies, and apply them to solve emerging challenges in power system design
• Understand current trends in data center power demands and grid integration of large loads
• Evaluate power demands throughout the data center architecture and maximize capacity and utilization
• Lead the team in developing test requirements to ensure solutions meet AWS' high standards for quality and availability
• Oversee and plan engineering goals for key initiatives that support future projects and growth
• Create and lead the development of power generation configurations for different applications
• Work independently and have frequent reviews with business leadership, other Principal Engineers, and Senior Engineers across AWS
• Facilitate the escalation of low-level project and product issues to senior engineering and business leadership
• Work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions
• Actively grow and coach the engineering team through group forums and one-on-one coaching and mentoring
• Be positive and offer creative, out-of-the-box solutions
• Continuously learn and be curious about how things work, willing to test and push new ideas
• Have fun and work hard!

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with power systems and electrical design, with at least 5 years in data centers or high availability, mission-critical applications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• In-depth knowledge of continuous operating redundant electrical systems and power infrastructure, including uninterruptable power sources, medium and low voltage electrical switchgear, power distribution units, variable frequency drives, automatic/static transfer switches
• Experience and knowledge of power generation equipment, systems, and controls, including diesel generators, distributed energy resources, gas turbines, battery energy storage systems
• Extensive experience in electrical power design, including interpreting wiring diagrams, single and three-line diagrams, P&ID drawings, sequence of operations, and electrical drawing packages, failure mode analysis
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams and collaborating with multiple engineering disciplines
• Proficiency with electrical design tools and analysis software

Qualifications

• Master's degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field preferred
• 15+ years of direct experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of mission critical data centers or power infrastructure preferred
• Licensed Professional Engineer preferred
• 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 preferred
• System Matter Expert level of understanding of both electrical equipment and designs related to data centers and power generation equipment preferred
• Experience with gathering, compiling, and analyzing data to identify availability and/or performance risks within the design and operations of critical power infrastructure, including an understanding of data analysis methodologies and statistical techniques preferred
• Experience with developing solutions and executing plans on fast-track design/build projects and/or multiple significant upgrade projects preferred
• Experience with commissioning and/or performance testing of critical infrastructure and the associated controls systems for mission critical environments preferred
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, R), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) and machine learning or related optimization frameworks preferred
• Possess excellent attention to detail and communication skills in order to maintain high quality standards for being organized, setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and staying within budgets preferred
• Possess leadership and problem-solving skills preferred