Senior Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain. You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.

AWS Hardware Engineering team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazon's web services. Our engineers work with leading edge technologies, solve challenging problems, influence the industry's roadmaps, and develop new and unique solutions. We work in an environment that fosters innovation and creativity. We sometimes fail, but we learn from such failures and we improve.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the design and development of server products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners
• Work closely with customers to understand their technical needs and business goals, leveraging your experience with server design and the knowledge of various teams to architect the solutions that we will deploy at scale
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration engineers, and lead our design and manufacturing partners to bring these servers to the data center
• Oversee the fleet of servers you develop after launch, monitoring their quality and how they are meeting customer requirements
• Constantly look for ways to improve your products' performance, quality, and cost

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
• Bachelors degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years experience with design and manufacturing processes
• 5+ years experience leading ODMs and other suppliers in the product development and manufacturing processes
• In depth expertise in one or more server technologies such as Thermal/Mechanical design, high speed bus design and signal integrity, failure analysis, server components (e.g. CPU, GPU, SSDs, drives), BIOS, BMC, and networking
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years hardware development with a focus on system/server development in compute and/or storage server architecture and design for large scale applications
• Expertise in early product definition and feature tradeoff analysis
• Experience with server validation and issue root causing
• Experience with deploying and operating hardware and applications across large data centers
• Proficient scripting, debug abilities, and Linux operations commands
• Experience with leading hardware and software development engineering teams