Principal Tech Ops Engineer, AWS Rack Manufacturing

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the 3 to 5 year manufacturing operations strategy, anticipating future capacity needs, identifying critical capability gaps, and prioritizing technology investments that position the region for sustained growth.
• Lead transformational programs that fundamentally reshape manufacturing capability, including advanced automation deployment, robotics integration, and lights out manufacturing initiatives.
• Drive manufacturing agility through flexible line configurations, rapid changeover capabilities, and multi product qualification strategies that enable the network to respond to evolving customer demand and technology transitions.
• Own capital expenditure planning for manufacturing operations, developing rigorous business cases that quantify returns on equipment investments, facility expansions, and technology upgrades.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks across the manufacturing network, including single points of failure, capacity constraints, systemic quality issues, and workforce availability challenges before they impact delivery.
• Architect and continuously evolve production line design, material flow strategies, and workstation configurations across the manufacturing network to deliver step function improvements in throughput, cycle time, and ergonomic safety.
• Lead the manufacturing execution system strategy for the region, establishing real time visibility into work in progress, station level yields, and production constraints that enable data driven decision making at every level.
• Champion Industry 4.0 adoption including IoT enabled production monitoring, predictive maintenance, and AI driven quality inspection, positioning the manufacturing network at the forefront of smart factory innovation.
• Design scalable mechanisms and intelligent automation that eliminate manual effort in production reporting, defect tracking, and capacity planning, creating operational leverage as the network grows.
• Translate complex operational data into compelling strategic narratives for executive leadership, shaping investment priorities and manufacturing direction through clear, insight driven recommendations.
• Lead digital transformation across manufacturing operations, driving manufacturing execution system modernization, automated test equipment upgrades, and smart factory capabilities that deliver measurable competitive advantage.

About the Team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, project engineering in a manufacturing environment
• Experience in Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, or experience in material handling equipment (MHE)
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles/ Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements, communicating results to senior leadership in building financial and operational reports
• Master's degree or above in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or Business Administration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware
• Experience coordinating complex products with stringent technical requirements, development cycles and schedules
• Knowledge of Six Sigma tools, Lean techniques, PMP or similar standards