Sr. Mechanical Engineer - CFD, Global Engineering Strategy

Amazon • Columbus, OH

2d • $136,600 - $184,800 • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring customers have continuous access to the innovation they rely on. The Global Engineering Strategy team (GES) is seeking a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) focused Sr. Mechanical Engineer to lead front-end engineering CFD studies, mechanical system selection, and site design strategy for new owned and leased site developments. This role involves performing site and building CFD modeling, water use calculations, equipment selection, and concept sketching. The engineer will develop CFD Scopes of Work (SoW), manage external vendors, and provide detailed report documents and design specifications as a subject matter expert. The position requires collaboration with GES project leads and other design partners to implement site CFD design strategy. The engineer will propose and analyze solutions for energy-efficient, cost-effective, and scalable site designs, and present findings to leadership while ensuring current systems meet performance standards.

Requirements

• 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience.
• Bachelor's degree or above in Mechanical Engineering.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of continuously operating redundant electrical systems, cooling systems, air flow containment systems, and building management systems.
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.
• Professional Engineer License.

Responsibilities

• Performing CFD models on innovative new and existing site designs.
• Driving process improvements across the organization.
• Providing reports to senior leadership on the results of those models.
• Performing water efficiency use calculations to determine quantity of water needed on site.
• Working with global ME teams to achieve alignment of design and CFD modeling standards.
• Understanding the key aspects of status quo data center mechanical systems to identify areas for improvement in next-generation data center designs (e.g., high capital/operational costs, reduced efficiencies, high levels of maintenance, security issues, and safety risks).
• Actively define, scope and participate in project & product teams focused on delivering innovations in next-generation data centers.
• Provide direct influence over the mechanical design and construction of new data centers and general capital endeavors.
• Work closely with hardware designers to optimize the interfaces between the IT equipment and the facility as well as understand the future trends and initiatives in IT equipment technology.
• Provide total CFD project management and oversight of the project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Record and report key metrics to team members and management.
• For issues that arise in data centers, drive teams to supply: root-cause analysis, quantify customer exposure, provide remediation, long-term corrective measures as well as ensuring these efforts are documented such that the issue doesn’t reoccur.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior