Sr. Systems Development Engineer (AWS Generative AI & ML Servers), AWS HW Engineering

About the role

The AWS Hardware Engineering team creates server designs for Amazon's innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and millions of customers who use AWS today.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms.
• Have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS.
• Be part of a growing, fast-paced, and fun team.
• Have ownership for the implementation of your work.
• See direct product improvements based on the results of your work.
• Work with a variety of job roles (SDEs, SDETs, Hardware Engineers, TPMs, Managers, Principals) and groups (AWS Hardware Engineering, EC2, other AWS services).
• Drive high quality and reliability into future/new designs for AWS Accelerated server solutions for AWS Cloud.

Requirements

• 4+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience with x86 architecture, as well as ARM, and GPU/ FPGA devices
• Experience with modern technology devices in storage, network, memory as well as a variety of interface standards and protocols (I2C, IPMI, SPI, PCIe)
• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical degree, or relevant work experience

Qualifications

• 7+ years or more in software development, systems development, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), or Resilience Engineering
• 7+ years of SysDE (Systems Development Engineer) or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of server systems debug experience; debugging and root causing complex server platforms
• 7+ years of experience contributing towards increasing durability, security, availability and scalability of systems through exploration, diagnosis and remediation
• Linux kernel and user-space drivers experience for PCIe and external devices
• System thinking - ability to diagnose interactions between discrete components of server system and drive product improvements
• Strong focus on reliability, scale and diagnostics (including developing tactical and strategic tools using Python, Go, C/C++)
• Solid understanding of OS internals, including network and storage subsystem
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Experience with modern technology devices in storage, network, memory as well as a variety of interface standards and protocols (PCIe, SATA, SAS, NVMe)
• Experience with validation of hardware, software, firmware and drivers and implementing test plans
• Experience with server validation, testing, issue root causing and coverage analysis
• Excellent knowledge diagnostics tools development with Python, Go, or C/C++ in fast paced environment
• Extensive Linux knowledge

Skills

• Strong focus on reliability, scale and diagnostics (including developing tactical and strategic tools using Python, Go, C/C++)
• System thinking - ability to diagnose interactions between discrete components of server system and drive product improvements
• Experience with modern technology devices in storage, network, memory as well as a variety of interface standards and protocols (PCIe, SATA, SAS, NVMe)
• Experience with validation of hardware, software, firmware and drivers and implementing test plans
• Experience with server validation, testing, issue root causing and coverage analysis
• Excellent knowledge diagnostics tools development with Python, Go, or C/C++ in fast paced environment
• Extensive Linux knowledge

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (military, family, and dependent care)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical, dependent care, and transit
• Retirement savings plan with company match
• Amazon Stock Purchase Plan
• Amazon Pharmacy Discount Card
• Amazon Student Program
• Amazon Leadership Academy
• Amazon Leadership Principles

Pay

Base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Schedule

Full-time