Cloud Hardware Development Engineer, Edge & High Performance Accelerator Servers for AI/ML

As a Cloud Hardware Development Engineer, you will be an end-to-end owner of Edge and/or Accelerator (AI/ML/GPU) Server Platforms, from New Product Introduction (NPI) through fleet health in production. You own the full lifecycle: design, development, qualification, launch, and ongoing operational excellence of servers running at scale in the AWS fleet.

Responsibilities

• NPI — New Product Introduction
  • Own the end-to-end NPI lifecycle for Edge and/or Accelerator (AI/ML/GPU) Server Platforms — from architecture definition through design, qualification, manufacturing ramp, and launch
  • Lead technical solutions for complex server and rack system architectural challenges
  • Work with ODM/manufacturing partners to develop, validate, and manufacture server products at scale
  • Develop functional specifications, design verification plans, and test procedures
  • Drive qualification and readiness milestones, ensuring new platforms meet performance, reliability, and cost targets before fleet deployment
  • Identify and resolve technical risks early in the development cycle
• Fleet Health, Diagnostics & Automation
  • Own fleet health for the server platforms you launch — reliability doesn’t end at ship
  • Design and implement predictive failure detection systems using telemetry, sensor data, error trending, and log correlation to identify hardware issues before they cause customer impact
  • Drive toward zero-touch operations — help build detection, diagnoses, and remediation of faults without human intervention
  • Debug complex system failures in time-sensitive settings — personally diving deep when the problem demands it
  • Perform root cause analysis correlating across firmware, kernel, driver, thermal, power, and physical layers
• Systems Design & Technical Depth
  • Apply expertise across hardware, software, system design, x86 architecture, processes, and operations (compute, storage, network, GPU)
  • 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
  • Collaborate with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management teams
• Cross-Team Collaboration
  • Work closely with internal customers to ensure new server hardware meets data path and control path requirements
  • Identify early any potential problems onboarding new servers into customer ecosystems
  • Collaborate across Hardware Engineering, component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration teams
  • Partner with datacenter operations to close the loop between field failures and design improvements

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Bachelor's degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with design & innovation and research & development
• Knowledge of operating systems, hardware, storage, network, security, database administration and cloud infrastructure
• Experience in server technologies such as thermal, mechanical, power, and signal integrity
• 5+ years of professional work (non-internship) experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
• Experience working with Advanced Compute technologies including, but not limited to: Accelerated Compute, High Performance Compute, Visual/Spatial Compute, and/or IoT
• Experience in server technologies: board design, high-speed bus design and signal integrity, failure analysis, server components (CPU, GPU, SSDs, memory), BIOS, BMC, and networking
• Experience developing and executing test procedures for mechanical and/or electrical systems/components
• Experience working with ODMs/manufacturer through the product development and manufacturing lifecycle
• Experience building predictive failure detection or proactive remediation systems at fleet scale
• Familiarity with PCIe topology, NVMe, and accelerator interconnects
• Experience with large-scale datacenter or cloud environments

Pay

• USA, CA, Cupertino: $157,300 - $212,800 USD annually
• USA, TX, Austin: $136,000 - $184,000 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: $136,000 - $184,000 USD annually

Benefits

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