Cloud Hardware Development Engineer, Storage , AWS Hardware Engineering, Hardware Engineering Services

Application deadline: Sep 20, 2026

About the role

AWS operates the world’s largest fleet of storage servers powering exabyte‑scale cloud storage services. Our team defines the server architectures, drives the hardware designs, and owns the fleet quality for these platforms — from component selection through datacenter operations. If you want to shape the physical hardware that critical storage infrastructure runs on, this is the role. We are seeking a Cloud Hardware Development Engineer to own fleet reliability and sustaining engineering for deployed storage platforms — driving failure analysis, component lifecycle management, and the feed‑forward loop between field performance and next‑generation design.

Responsibilities

What You Will Do: You will own the reliability of a large deployed storage fleet. Your work spans failure analysis, component qualification, and root cause correlation across drive interconnects, storage controllers, and power‑loss protection circuits. You will drive resolution of fleet quality issues from symptom through permanent fix, and feed findings back into next‑generation design requirements and test content. When a platform’s fleet quality metrics improve, the analysis, corrective actions, and design changes are yours.

• Fleet Reliability & Failure Analysis
  • Own fleet quality metrics post‑launch: platform‑level annualized failure rates, unsellable server rates, and component‑level failure modes.
  • Drive root cause analysis on high‑volume failure patterns — particularly connector and cable‑driven failures, storage controller faults, and power‑loss protection issues.
  • Correlate field failure data with manufacturing lot, supplier, and test escape information to identify systemic trends.
  • Engage with component suppliers on corrective actions.
• Sustaining & Component Lifecycle
  • Manage platform‑specific BOM variants across multiple deployed generations simultaneously.
• Feed‑Forward to Next Generation
  • Translate fleet failure patterns into concrete requirements for next‑generation platforms.
  • Define test content additions based on failure modes observed in production.
  • Contribute failure‑mode‑driven additions to manufacturing test coverage and data center vetting automation.
• Validation & Debug
  • Define and execute validation strategies from PCBA bring‑up through server and rack integration — covering power sequencing, signal integrity, thermal characterization, and NVMe/SSD subsystem performance.
  • Own hardware debug during EVT/DVT/PVT builds, correlating failures across PCIe, power rails, NVMe links, and storage controller subsystems.
  • Triage hardware issues at both ODM facilities