Principal Power Systems Engineer, AWS Global Energy

Principal Power Systems Engineer

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 systems to handle the latest emerging technology? We are seeking an experienced electrical engineer with extensive experience in power infrastructure design, including power generation and power systems, with a deep understanding of the physics and mathematics of energy systems to support our growing requirements for novel solutions to delivering power to AWS data centers.

• You understand current and emerging scalable power and energy technologies, and how to apply them to solve emerging challenges in power system design
• You understand current trends in data center power demands and grid integration of large loads
• Have a deep understanding of analytical methods for evaluating power demands throughout the data center architecture and means to maximize capacity and utilization
• Understand grid interconnection standards and requirements, including working on microgrid design and controls, and distributed energy resources
• Lead the team in developing test requirements to ensure solutions meet AWS high standards for quality and availability and set the expectation for quality in the engineering team
• You oversee and plan engineering goals for key initiatives that support future projects and growth and build engineering strategies. You conceive, initiate, and lead projects with widespread impact on infrastructure design, innovation, and implementation
• Understanding the design and functionality of the global data center fleet, including existing, upcoming, and unique site designs
• Provide input and direction to Data Center Engineering teams for design revisions for new data centers as well as to Field Engineering for operational data center upgrades to meet critical strategic requirements
• You demonstrate ability to review business cases and analysis models including TCO and ROI to select projects and designs
• You decompose complex problems or new technologies or topologies to distill underlying risks and benefits, and identify straightforward solutions to reduce risk
• Create and lead the development of power generation configurations for different applications, including primary, temporary, or backup power
• You work independently and have frequent reviews with business leadership, other Principal Engineers, and senior engineers across AWS
• You actively facilitate the escalation of low-level project and product issues to senior engineering and business leadership
• Working on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions
• Being a leader within the group as well as within other teams. You actively grow and coach the engineering team through forums and one-on-one coaching and mentoring to ensure development and promotion of top engineers
• Being positive and offering creative, out-of-the-box solutions
• Continuously learning, curious about how things work, and willing to test and push new ideas
• Having fun and working hard

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. The team provides technical input to realize a shared vision and strategy with partner teams and offers engineering support across the project or product lifecycle to deliver the solution.

We also provide grid analytics and develop models for determining the total energy and water use within our fleet of data centers and work with partners on improving overall performance.

• 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…