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. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems, and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies.

Responsibilities

• You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS.
• You will be part of a growing, fast-paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work.
• You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work.
• You will be a technical leader solving complex architectural problems which may not be defined before hand. You will be owning the teams' systems and work proactively in identifying deficiencies, writing tactical code to solve issues before they impact customers, and working with your team to scale the solution.
• You will decompose big difficult server system testability, reliability, and diagnosis problems into straightforward tasks, components, or features that you will lead to deliver yourself and through others in parallel.
• You will use combination of hardware, software, system designs, x86 architecture, processes, diagnosis, and operations knowledge.
• In this role, you will create automation through agent-based workflows. You'll develop smart automation solutions, implement AI-driven tools and workflows, and be part of AI transformation.

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, and 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, and 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