Commissioning Engineer, Data Center Engineering

Prineville, Oregon, United States Corporate Functions

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It's Apple's central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.

Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here. Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations - managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question.

The Data Center Commissioning team is seeking a dedicated Data Center Commissioning Engineer to anchor our field efforts at a mission-critical campus. By maintaining day-to-day, firsthand oversight of the job site, you will serve as the program’s direct connection to physical execution. You will closely track daily construction and testing activities in real-time, guaranteeing that all vendor performance strictly adheres to Apple's global commissioning guidelines.

In this role, you will oversee the daily onsite activities of third-party Commissioning Agents (CxA), general contractors, and equipment vendors. You will bridge the gap between global commissioning standards and physical site realities- driving field QA/QC, managing the local testing schedule, enforcing strict safety protocols during live testing, and tracking issue resolution from component startup through Integrated Systems Testing (IST).

• Serve as the primary onsite Apple commissioning representative for a specific data center campus, driving the day-to-day execution of the commissioning lifecycle (Levels 1-5).
• Partner continuously with the Data Center Places, Operations, Engineering, and Commissioning teams to ensure site-specific execution strictly aligns with Apple's global commissioning playbooks, test procedures, and pass/fail criteria.
• Manage, coordinate, and audit the daily onsite activities of third-party Commissioning Agents (CxA), general contractors, mechanical/electrical subcontractors, and vendor field engineers.
• Conduct regular field walks and QA/QC inspections to verify equipment installation against approved Basis of Design (BOD), MEP-FP drawing packages, Single-Line Diagrams, and P&IDs prior to energization or pressurization.
• Drive the daily site commissioning schedule, coordinating the logistics of load bank deployments, specialized testing equipment, vendor visits, and localized test readiness.
• Manage the site-specific commissioning issue log (using tools like CxAlloy), tracking punch-list items, driving root-cause analysis (RCA) in the field, and ensuring timely resolution of equipment deficiencies.
• Validate field execution of Pre-Functional Testing (PFT) and Functional Performance Testing (FPT) for both mechanical (chillers, CDUs, AHUs) and electrical (UPS, switch gear, generators) systems.
• Enforce strict onsite adherence to Methods of Procedure (MOPs), mechanical Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), and energized electrical work safety protocols during complex switching and live system testing.
• Act as the immediate escalation point for field engineering challenges, working collaboratively with Data Center…