Senior Hardware Development Engineer

Senior Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Storage and Accelerators
Job ID: 3152749 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. 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 — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
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. Amazon Web Services (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 that are ahead of the pack. We encourage and invest in new directions and new ideas that will serve our customers better. It is because of the team and our constant focus on the customers, that we are able to develop creative and new designs that set the standards on performance, quality, cost, and operational excellence.
What you will do: 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.
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. Why you will love it: You will work directly with a talented team of engineers and product owners across the company to create next-generation hardware. You will have a direct impact on your customer\'s success, drive the development of the Cloud, and have a meaningful impact on Amazon's success. Lead technical solutions for complex storage and/or accelerator server and rack system architectural challenges
Decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features
Apply expertise across hardware, software, system design, x86 architecture, processes, and operations
Collaborate with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain and product management teams
Develop and implement diagnostic tools and monitoring solutions for production systems
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
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 or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
~5+ years of Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related experience
~5+ years of process development experience
~ Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
~ 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, memory), BIOS, BMC, and networking

Master\'s degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
~ Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
~10+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience
~ Experience working with engineering and product teams to define a product and bring it to market
~5+ years of data center engineering or operations experience
~ Experience in Linux/RHEL, or experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP) and experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
~ Experience with server validation and issue root causing
~ Experience with leading hardware and software development engineering teams

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