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Technical Solutions Engineer jobs are among the more OPT-friendly roles in tech because they sit at the intersection of engineering and customer-facing work, making them attractive to a wide range of employers. Many companies file H-1B visa or E-3 visa petitions for TSEs after OPT, giving you a realistic path to long-term status.
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Amazon is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our Global Engineering Services & Analytics (GESA) organization on the Power and Hydrogen Solutions team. In this role, you will own the asset management and continuous improvement program for Amazon’s global fleet of power and hydrogen resiliency assets—including generators, battery energy storage systems (BESS), fuel cells, electrolyzers, hydrogen storage and dispensing systems, and related electrical and balance-of-plant infrastructure—deployed across Amazon’s global portfolio of fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery stations.
You will lead the corrective action process end to end: driving root cause analysis on equipment issues and outages, tracking corrective actions to closure, and mining issue patterns to identify and deliver continuous improvements across the fleet. You will manage continuous improvement projects in partnership with vendors and stakeholders—with safety as a non-negotiable priority—and own the lifecycle management of deployed assets to ensure uninterrupted, safe operations at Amazon sites worldwide.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You will work cross-functionally with electrical and hydrogen engineering, operations, safety, construction, and procurement teams to deliver resilient, continuously improving power and hydrogen solutions at scale.
Key job responsibilities
Corrective Action & Root Cause Analysis
- Own and manage the supplier corrective action process for power and hydrogen asset issues end to end—from issue intake and triage through investigation, corrective action, and verified closure.
- Lead structured root cause analysis (RCA) on equipment failures, outages, near-misses, and safety events across generators, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage infrastructure/dispensing systems.
- Track corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to closure; maintain a single source of truth for issue status, owners, due dates, and progress, and escalate stalled or at-risk items.
- Establish and report corrective action KPIs (e.g., time-to-closure, recurrence rate, overdue actions); drive cadences that hold owners accountable for timely, high-quality resolution.
- Partner with safety and engineering to ensure corrective actions eliminate hazards and address systemic causes—not just symptoms—and are validated as effective before closure.
Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence
- Analyze issue patterns and trends across the fleet to identify systemic opportunities for continuous improvement in reliability, safety, cost, and availability.
- Translate recurring issues and RCA findings into a prioritized continuous improvement roadmap; define problem statements, success metrics, and business cases for each initiative.
- Lead continuous improvement projects in partnership with vendors and stakeholders—scoping, planning, and driving them from idea through implementation and measured results.
- Standardize and improve maintenance strategies, design guidelines, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) based on fleet learnings; drive adoption across the portfolio.
- Use equipment performance and maintenance data to predict failures, optimize maintenance intervals, and demonstrate the impact of improvements over time.
Asset Lifecycle Management
- Own lifecycle management of deployed power and hydrogen assets, ensuring reliability, safety, compliance, and performance throughout each asset’s service life.
- Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance programs for generators, BESS, fuel cells, hydrogen storage infrastructure/dispensing, and associated controls across assigned sites.
- Manage end-of-life planning and replacement strategies for aging assets, including capital justification and prioritization.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management (Safety)
- Manage continuous improvement and corrective action projects with vendors and stakeholders—including generator and fuel cell OEMs, BESS and hydrogen suppliers, electrical contractors, and service partners—holding them accountable to scope, schedule, quality, and safety standards.
- Partner closely with Safety to ensure every project and corrective action meets Amazon’s safety requirements; embed safety reviews, controls, and sign-offs into the improvement lifecycle.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between engineering, operations, safety, and external partners for asset management and continuous improvement activities at assigned sites.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment across regional operations, site leadership, safety, and corporate engineering to ensure improvements are adopted and sustained in steady-state operations.
- Manage service agreements, change orders, purchase orders, and invoicing associated with corrective action and continuous improvement work.
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Support the development of Amazon’s global power and hydrogen resiliency strategy, including asset health frameworks, reliability scoring models, and continuous improvement prioritization criteria.
- Evaluate emerging technologies in energy storage, distributed generation, hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysis, microgrid architecture, and renewable integration to inform the team’s technical and improvement roadmap.
- Represent the Power and Hydrogen Solutions team in cross-functional reviews, leadership briefings, and incident response coordination.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of technical infrastructure management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Engineering, or a related field
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in Engineering or Business Administration or a related field
- Experience with process improvement, Kaizan, and Six Sigma, or experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
- Experience with hydrogen technologies—fuel cells, hydrogen storage and dispensing infrastructure, power solutions.
- Experience managing OEM and contractor relationships, service agreements, and capital planning for infrastructure assets.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
COMPENSATION
- The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Bellevue - 127,100.00 - 171,900.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our Global Engineering Services & Analytics (GESA) organization on the Power and Hydrogen Solutions team. In this role, you will own the asset management and continuous improvement program for Amazon’s global fleet of power and hydrogen resiliency assets—including generators, battery energy storage systems (BESS), fuel cells, electrolyzers, hydrogen storage and dispensing systems, and related electrical and balance-of-plant infrastructure—deployed across Amazon’s global portfolio of fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery stations.
You will lead the corrective action process end to end: driving root cause analysis on equipment issues and outages, tracking corrective actions to closure, and mining issue patterns to identify and deliver continuous improvements across the fleet. You will manage continuous improvement projects in partnership with vendors and stakeholders—with safety as a non-negotiable priority—and own the lifecycle management of deployed assets to ensure uninterrupted, safe operations at Amazon sites worldwide.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You will work cross-functionally with electrical and hydrogen engineering, operations, safety, construction, and procurement teams to deliver resilient, continuously improving power and hydrogen solutions at scale.
Key job responsibilities
Corrective Action & Root Cause Analysis
- Own and manage the supplier corrective action process for power and hydrogen asset issues end to end—from issue intake and triage through investigation, corrective action, and verified closure.
- Lead structured root cause analysis (RCA) on equipment failures, outages, near-misses, and safety events across generators, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage infrastructure/dispensing systems.
- Track corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to closure; maintain a single source of truth for issue status, owners, due dates, and progress, and escalate stalled or at-risk items.
- Establish and report corrective action KPIs (e.g., time-to-closure, recurrence rate, overdue actions); drive cadences that hold owners accountable for timely, high-quality resolution.
- Partner with safety and engineering to ensure corrective actions eliminate hazards and address systemic causes—not just symptoms—and are validated as effective before closure.
Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence
- Analyze issue patterns and trends across the fleet to identify systemic opportunities for continuous improvement in reliability, safety, cost, and availability.
- Translate recurring issues and RCA findings into a prioritized continuous improvement roadmap; define problem statements, success metrics, and business cases for each initiative.
- Lead continuous improvement projects in partnership with vendors and stakeholders—scoping, planning, and driving them from idea through implementation and measured results.
- Standardize and improve maintenance strategies, design guidelines, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) based on fleet learnings; drive adoption across the portfolio.
- Use equipment performance and maintenance data to predict failures, optimize maintenance intervals, and demonstrate the impact of improvements over time.
Asset Lifecycle Management
- Own lifecycle management of deployed power and hydrogen assets, ensuring reliability, safety, compliance, and performance throughout each asset’s service life.
- Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance programs for generators, BESS, fuel cells, hydrogen storage infrastructure/dispensing, and associated controls across assigned sites.
- Manage end-of-life planning and replacement strategies for aging assets, including capital justification and prioritization.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management (Safety)
- Manage continuous improvement and corrective action projects with vendors and stakeholders—including generator and fuel cell OEMs, BESS and hydrogen suppliers, electrical contractors, and service partners—holding them accountable to scope, schedule, quality, and safety standards.
- Partner closely with Safety to ensure every project and corrective action meets Amazon’s safety requirements; embed safety reviews, controls, and sign-offs into the improvement lifecycle.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between engineering, operations, safety, and external partners for asset management and continuous improvement activities at assigned sites.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment across regional operations, site leadership, safety, and corporate engineering to ensure improvements are adopted and sustained in steady-state operations.
- Manage service agreements, change orders, purchase orders, and invoicing associated with corrective action and continuous improvement work.
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Support the development of Amazon’s global power and hydrogen resiliency strategy, including asset health frameworks, reliability scoring models, and continuous improvement prioritization criteria.
- Evaluate emerging technologies in energy storage, distributed generation, hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysis, microgrid architecture, and renewable integration to inform the team’s technical and improvement roadmap.
- Represent the Power and Hydrogen Solutions team in cross-functional reviews, leadership briefings, and incident response coordination.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of technical infrastructure management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Engineering, or a related field
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in Engineering or Business Administration or a related field
- Experience with process improvement, Kaizan, and Six Sigma, or experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
- Experience with hydrogen technologies—fuel cells, hydrogen storage and dispensing infrastructure, power solutions.
- Experience managing OEM and contractor relationships, service agreements, and capital planning for infrastructure assets.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
COMPENSATION
- The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Bellevue - 127,100.00 - 171,900.00 USD annually
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Technical Solutions Engineer
Target companies with dedicated customer engineering teams
Enterprise software companies, cloud platforms, and SaaS firms run large technical solutions teams and sponsor work visas regularly. Focus your search on organizations with established pre-sales or post-sales engineering functions, where TSE hiring is recurring rather than one-off.
Lead with technical depth, not just communication skills
Hiring managers assume TSEs can talk to customers. What differentiates candidates is hands-on product knowledge. Demonstrate API experience, integration work, or scripting skills in your resume and interviews to show you can handle the technical half of the role independently.
Get your OPT authorization in place before you start applying
TSE hiring moves fast, especially at growth-stage companies. Having your EAD in hand lets you start within two weeks of an offer, which matters to employers. Delays in authorization can cost you an offer if a company needs someone to start immediately.
Clarify the visa sponsorship timeline during the offer stage
Ask whether the company has sponsored TSEs before and what their typical H-1B visa timeline looks like. Knowing this before you accept lets you plan around the OPT expiration date and assess whether STEM OPT extension gives you enough runway to reach the next lottery cycle.
Treat certifications as a sponsorship signal, not just a resume line
AWS, GCP, Azure, or Salesforce certifications show employers you can ramp quickly on their stack. Certified candidates reduce onboarding risk, which makes it easier for hiring managers to justify the cost and process of sponsoring a work visa down the line.
Document your OPT employment to protect STEM extension eligibility
If you plan to apply for a 24-month STEM OPT extension, your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and you must file Form I-983. Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting an offer, and keep all employment records current throughout your initial OPT period.
Technical Solutions Engineer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Technical Solutions Engineer on OPT?
Yes. TSE roles qualify under OPT because they directly apply the engineering or computer science degree most candidates hold. The role involves technical implementation, troubleshooting, and systems integration, all of which align with standard STEM degree fields. If your degree is in a STEM-designated field, you may also qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension after your initial 12 months.
Do Technical Solutions Engineer employers typically sponsor visas?
Many do, particularly enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS companies that run large technical solutions or solutions engineering teams. These companies hire TSEs at scale and have established visa sponsorship processes. Smaller companies may be willing but lack the infrastructure, so it is worth asking directly about their sponsorship history. Migrate Mate filters for OPT-friendly and visa-sponsoring employers so you can focus your search effectively.
Does a TSE role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not just the job title. If your bachelor's or master's degree is in a STEM-designated field such as computer science, information systems, or engineering, and the TSE role meaningfully applies that field, you should qualify. Your DSO will make the final determination. The role itself is inherently technical, so most TSE positions support a strong STEM OPT extension case.
What is the difference between a Technical Solutions Engineer and a Software Engineer for OPT purposes?
Both can qualify for OPT and STEM OPT extension under the same degree fields, so there is no material difference in work authorization terms. The practical distinction is that TSE roles blend technical implementation with customer-facing responsibilities, while software engineering is typically internal. Some students find TSE roles easier to land because fewer candidates apply relative to pure engineering positions, making them strategically valuable during OPT.
How do I find Technical Solutions Engineer jobs that are open to OPT students?
The challenge is that most job postings do not explicitly state OPT eligibility, so you often waste time applying to roles where sponsorship is off the table. Migrate Mate is built specifically for this, surfacing TSE and other tech roles from employers who are open to OPT candidates and have a history of visa sponsorship. Filtering by employer type and role function saves significant time compared to general job searches.