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Senior Hardware Development Engineer, Cloud AI/ML Server Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Seattle, WA · Today
EngineeringFull-time

About the role

The Hardware Engineering AI/ML Server platform team is a group of engineers and technical program managers directly responsible for launching GPU-accelerated servers into the AWS fleet. Located in Seattle, Denver, and Cupertino, we collaborate with global development teams and ODM partners to deliver next-generation AI/ML infrastructure deployed in datacenters worldwide. We move fast with small, empowered teams delivering end-to-end — from server conception through fleet-scale operations.

Responsibilities

  • Define server architectures based on workload demand and customer requirements, translating them into detailed designs and component specifications that enable high-performance AI training and inference at scale
  • Work with interdisciplinary teams of component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration engineers to deliver cohesive designs
  • Drive design reviews with ODM/JDM partners covering schematic, layout, BOM, and manufacturing DFx (Design for Test, Design for Manufacturing)
  • Define and execute validation strategies from PCBA bring-up through server and rack integration — covering power sequencing, signal integrity, thermal characterization, and accelerator interconnect performance
  • Own hardware debug during EVT/DVT/PVT builds, correlating failures across PCIe, power rails, memory channels, and GPU subsystems
  • Triage hardware issues at both ODM facilities and datacenters, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions
  • Own fleet quality metrics post-launch: server-level annualized failure rates and component-level failure modes
  • Monitor operational telemetry to identify systemic issues and drive design or process changes for current and future platforms
  • Partner with test and automation teams to improve manufacturing yield and reduce test dwell times
  • Cross-team collaboration: work with EC2 architecture teams to align on instance definitions, workload requirements, and platform trade-offs; drive ODM/JDM design partners through development milestones and production ramp; collaborate with firmware, software, and operations teams to ensure designs are debuggable, serviceable, and automation-ready

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
  • Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
  • 7+ years of hardware design and development experience for server, compute, or large-scale infrastructure platforms
  • Experience in one or more server technologies: thermal/mechanical design, power delivery, high-speed signal integrity, or accelerator subsystems
  • Experience leading hardware development through full product lifecycle (concept through production ramp)

Qualifications

  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience working with ODMs through the product development and manufacturing lifecycle (EVT, DVT, PVT)
  • In-depth expertise in high-speed bus design, signal integrity analysis, or power delivery for GPU/accelerator platforms
  • 5+ years of experience with hardware bring-up, debug, and root cause analysis across PCIe, NVMe, memory, and accelerator interconnects
  • Experience owning fleet quality metrics and driving design improvements based on operational failure data
  • Experience with thermal/mechanical design for high-power-density compute platforms (liquid cooling, air cooling, or hybrid)

Skills

  • Think across the full hardware stack — from silicon packaging and power delivery to rack-level thermal and mechanical design
  • Comfortable reviewing a schematic as you are analyzing fleet failure data
  • Drive quality through data, not assumption, and hold design partners to the same standard you hold yourself
  • Mentor and develop junior engineers, contribute to hiring, and share your expertise to make the team stronger

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

$183,000.00 - $247,600.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time

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