Sr. Hardware Development Engineer, Hardware Engineering Services

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering is a leading-edge product development team that creates enterprise compute and storage server designs for our innovative web service and e-commerce technology platforms.

Our designs are industry-leading in terms of performance, frugality, and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and the hundreds of thousands of customers who use utility computing today. We are seeking experienced Thermal/Mechanical Engineers to build the next generation of our cloud platforms.

Our success depends on our truly innovative server infrastructure; we're handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies.

What you will do

As a member of the Hardware Engineering Mechanical/Thermal/Reliability (MTR) Component Engineering team you'll be responsible for the design of our rack sub-systems. You'll provide leadership in the application of new mechanical technologies to large scale server deployments in a continuous effort to deliver a world-class customer experience.

This is a fast-paced, challenging position, and you'll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas. You'll have relentlessly 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. You'll need to understand when a change in technology enables a completely different way of approaching design.

• We're changing an industry, and we want team members who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.
• Why it matters: AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure is the most secure, extensive, and reliable cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Whether customers need to deploy application workloads across the globe in a single click, or want to build and deploy specific applications closer to end-users with single-digit millisecond latency, AWS provides the cloud infrastructure where and when its needed. With millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners globally, AWS has the largest and most dynamic ecosystem.

Customers across virtually every industry and of every size, including start-ups, enterprises, and public sector organizations, are running every imaginable use case on AWS. We continually need to deploy newer, innovative, and more efficient and cost effective hardware. Your work will drive efficiency and significant cost savings while improving the performance and reliability of our websites and services.

Your work will touch development teams and customers around the world.

• You will demonstrate a working knowledge of mechanical and thermal systems, with experience in systems integration of complex server products.
• You'll have the desire to learn from new challenges and the problem solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team.
• Candidates must show a hands-on passion for their work and be able to communicate their ideas and concepts both verbally, and visually.
• Candidates must demonstrate an ability to integrate feedback and to respond quickly to changing contexts and work environments.

In this role, you will

• Perform mechanical design and development for rack sub-systems and associated components (frame, rails, chassis, air dams, sesimic brackets, stabilizers, blanking panels)
• Validate subsystems and components meet NPI program requirements
• Participate in the cross-discipline design process working with other HW and SW team members to develop optimized integrated solutions
• Conduct failure analysis and solution validation
• Manage interaction with overseas resources
• Provide mentorship and technical reviews to a team of mechanical/thermal design engineers

A day in the life

The average week is a mixture of using engineering tools (CAD and thermal simulation), data analysis, meetings (internal and vendors), test report reviews, design reviews, and communicating via tickets or emails to make design and project decisions.

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
• Experience in compute and storage server architecture and design for large scale applications
• 5+ years experience in mechanical design for server technologies or Data Center applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• Proficient with CAD tools such as Creo or Solidworks.

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, WA, Seattle - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually