Senior Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute
About the role
As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team you will own and lead the design and development of server products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners. You will work closely with our 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. To deliver your products you will 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. After launch you will oversee the fleet of servers you develop, monitoring their quality and how they are meeting the customer requirements. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you'll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas. You'll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you'll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products' performance, quality, and cost. We're changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the design and development of server products with design and manufacturing partners
- Work closely with customers to understand their technical needs and business goals
- Architect solutions to be deployed at scale
- Work with interdisciplinary teams of component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration engineers
- Lead design and manufacturing partners to bring servers to the data center
- Oversee the fleet of servers developed, monitoring quality and customer requirements
- Constantly look for ways to improve product 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
- Bachelor's 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
- 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
Benefits
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Pay
Base pay ranges from $143,300/year in the lowest geographic market up to $257,300/year in the highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.