Structural Engineer, FRE-CSA - Field Remediation Engineering, Civil Architectural Structural

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, keeping the cloud running. The team supports all AWS data centers and the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure continual customer access to innovation. As a Structural Engineer in the Fleet remediation engineering, Civil Structural and Architectural (FRE‑CSA) team, you will understand customer demand and technology/business opportunities to achieve organizational goals, propose and analyze multiple solutions for efficient, cost‑effective, resilient, and scalable structural designs/remediations, provide global vision and recommendations to leadership for next‑generation data center structural design and remediation on new and existing sites, and ensure current structural systems meet performance and operational standards. You will lead cross‑functional teams including technical program management, product management, architectural, civil, mechanical, electrical engineering, supply chain, operations, safety and security, and legal.

Responsibilities

• Provide full life‑cycle support to AWS data centers from design inception through site improvement and maintenance.
• Serve as the ‘go‑to’ engineering resource for your region when technical advice is needed, using your structural engineering subject‑matter expertise.
• Work with a team of multi‑disciplinary professionals on conceptual design, build, and retrofit projects at existing data centers.
• Create, review, and release data center structural improvements and designs.
• Drive refinements to the Basis of Design, product development, sustainability, and template specifications for structural systems to support continuous improvement of future data center designs.
• Serve as a technical advisor for projects including review of foundation and structural systems.
• Create, review, and release structural design RFPs.
• Manage external structural design consultants through audit, design, and implementation of various projects while coordinating with internal engineering, construction, and other stakeholder teams.
• Lead initiatives aimed at improving quality, schedule, consistency, or reducing costs for in‑flight and future data center construction and improvement projects.
• Work on multiple data center build and capital improvement projects simultaneously without compromising safety and availability constraints.

Requirements

• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Structural Engineering.
• 2+ years of data center or mission critical facilities experience (e.g., hospital, military facility, public safety facility) or 2+ years of construction or project management experience.
• Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings and specifications, or experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings.

Qualifications

• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.
• Experience in data center or mission critical facility design with basic multidisciplinary knowledge of mission critical systems, design process, pre‑construction requirements, and the construction process.
• Professional Civil/Structural Engineering (PE) License.

Benefits

• Sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, option for 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 and parental leave.

Pay

Base salary range: USD 96,600.00 – 160,000.00 annually (applicable