Senior Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazon's web services. Our engineers work with leading edge technologies, solve challenging problems, influence the industry's roadmaps, and develop new and unique solutions that are ahead of the pack. We work in an environment that fosters innovation and creativity.

We encourage and invest in new directions and new ideas that will serve our customers better. We sometimes fail, but we learn from such failures and we improve. It is because of the team and our constant focus on the customers, that we are able to develop creative and new designs that set the standards on performance, quality, cost, and operational excellence.

What you will do

• As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team you will own and lead the design and development of server products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners.
• You will work closely with our customers to understand their technical needs and business goals, leveraging your experience with server design and the knowledge of various teams to architect the solutions that we will deploy at scale.

To deliver your products you will work with an interdisciplinary team of component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration engineers, and lead our design and manufacturing partners to bring these servers to the data center. After launch you will oversee the fleet of servers you develop, monitoring their quality and how they are meeting the customer requirements.

• This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you'll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas.
• You'll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you'll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products' performance, quality, and cost.
• We're changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

• Why you will love it: You will work directly with a talented team of engineers and product owners across the company to create next-generation hardware.
• You will have a direct impact on your customer's success, drive the development of the Cloud, and have a meaningful impact on Amazon's success.
• You will be part of a growing, fast paced, and fun team.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead technical solutions for complex compute, storage and/or accelerator server and rack system architectural challenges
• Own end-to-end system reliability, proactively identifying and resolving deficiencies before customer impact
• Design and implement solutions to address system-level issues at large scale
• Decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features
• Apply expertise across hardware, software, system design, x86 architecture, processes, and operations
• Collaborate with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain and product management teams
• Develop and implement diagnostic tools and monitoring solutions for production systems
• Debug complex system failures in time sensitive settings

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Experience in server technologies such as, thermal, mechanical, power, and signal integrity
• Bachelors degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years experience with design and manufacturing processes
• 5+ years experience leading ODMs and other suppliers in the product development and manufacturing processes
• In depth expertise in one or more server technologies such as Thermal / Mechanical design, high speed bus design and signal integrity, failure analysis, server components (e.g. CPU, NIC, FPGA, GPU, SSDs, drives), BIOS, BMC, and networking
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• 10+ years years hardware development with a focus on system / server development in compute and/or storage server architecture and design for large scale applications
• Expertise in early product definition and feature tradeoff analysis
• Experience with server validation and issue root causing
• Experience with deploying and operating hardware and applications across large data centers
• Proficient scripting, debug abilities, and Linux operations commands
• Experience with leading hardware and software development engineering teams

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

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.

USA, CA, Cupertino - 183,000.00 - 247,600.00 USD annually