Commissioning Engineer, AMER-West ACx
Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX$116.8k - $160kfull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
AWS Data Center Commissioning Engineer (CxE) for AMER-West within the AWS Data Center Commissioning Team (ACx). Responsible for testing, validation, and commissioning of electrical and mechanical infrastructure in Amazon-owned data centers, leading factory witness testing, coordinating vendors, and ensuring adherence to design and safety standards.
Responsibilities
- Provides testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
- Reviews design documents, leads Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and manages third-party commissioning vendors for onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.
- Dives Deep to resolve technical issues and maintains Bias for Action to address schedule and coordination demands onsite.
- Provides multi-discipline input into scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects.
- Reviews submittal packages, leads FWT, and performs system-level and integrated system testing.
- Audits activities for environmental, quality, and safety compliance during commissioning.
- Maintains comprehensive weekly status reporting and lessons learned to improve the program.
- Coordinates across AWS engineering, capacity delivery, operations, and contractor teams; manages commissioning vendors; escalates project turnover risks.
- Captures and shares lessons learned and participates in initiatives to improve the commissioning program.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering, installation, or startup/commissioning of electrical and mechanical systems experience
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or 5+ years of relevant discipline work experience
- High technical competency in either mechanical or electrical or control systems used in critical infrastructures, with ability to learn others
- Ability to review design documentation (drawings, specifications, vendor submittals, sequences of operations) and provide feedback per Amazon standards
- Experience developing and reviewing commissioning documentation (test plans, scripts, reports) for accuracy with design requirements
Skills
Required:Project coordinationVendor managementTest planning and executionReading construction drawings and specifications
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee assistance programs, mental health support
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off, parental leave
- Discretionary RSUs and sign-on payments
- Comprehensive benefits package described in Amazon benefits page
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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