Senior Cloud Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Hardware Engineering Services, Specialized Platforms and Servers

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering Services (HWEngS) team creates compute, storage, accelerator, and enterprise servers for Amazon’s innovative web services. We are seeking experienced CHDEs to architect, design, develop, and build next-generation servers and AWS specific hardware components. Our designs are industry-leading in performance, frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and the more than one million customers who use AWS today. Our CHDE's solve challenging technology problems, and build architecturally sound, high-quality servers and components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies. Our success depends on our highly respected server infrastructure; we’re handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies.

What you will do

• Collaborate with internal development teams and external suppliers to deliver new servers with industry leading performance and quality.
• Establish strategic vision and drive execution in defining and delivering new products and services.
• Lead the integration and delivery of servers, support the development of automated monitoring, and failure analysis services to operate, debug, and scale our servers.
• Work closely with other AWS software teams to tailor and operate servers solutions for the AWS environment.
• Support launching our servers into production and operating our fleet of servers.

A day in the life

Your day to day responsibilities will include interfacing with our internal customers to understand project requirements and facilitate system development on top of your server design. You will be responsible for solving operational challenges to our existing fleet with the goal of improving the current customer experience as well as developing improved systems for future designs. You will work directly with vendors and ODM/JDM design teams to develop and manufacture your product at scale.

About the team

The team is comprised of CHDE's, System Development Engineers and Technical Program Managers, all with the common goal of delivering the best specialized server fleet possible to our customers.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

We value diversity and inclusion. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Key job responsibilities

• Bring new technology to our server & products as well as scaling how we operate our massive existing & rapidly growing fleet.
• Collaborate with internal development teams and external suppliers to deliver new servers with industry leading performance and quality.
• Establish strategic vision and drive execution in defining and delivering new products and services.
• Lead the integration and delivery of servers, support the development of automated monitoring, and failure analysis services to operate, debug, and scale our servers.
• Work closely with other AWS software teams to tailor and operate servers solutions for the AWS environment.
• Support launching our servers into production and operating our fleet of servers.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent, or 5+ years of relevant technical position experience
• 5+ years of experience in server level design for compute, storage, accelerator segment or other complex product design
• 5+ years’ experience leading ODMs and other suppliers in the product development and manufacturing processes
• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Experience in board and server root cause analysis and resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in complex product development such as servers, network switches, or other highly integrated devices with hardware, software, and service aspects
• Expertise in early product definition and feature tradeoff analysis
• Expertise in product development disciplines such as, thermal, mechanical, power, FW/SW, reliability, and sustaining
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Proficient scripting, debug abilities, and Linux operations commands
• Experience deploying and operating hardware and applications across large data centers.
• Experience leading hardware and software development engineering teams