Hardware Development Engineer II, AWS Mainstream Compute
About The Position
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering team designs compute and storage servers for Amazon's web services, utilizing leading-edge technologies to solve challenging problems and develop innovative solutions. The team fosters an environment of innovation and creativity, encouraging new ideas and directions to better serve customers. They learn from failures and continuously improve, setting standards for performance, quality, cost, and operational excellence. This role involves collaborating with a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers across AWS to deliver high standards of safety and security while providing scalable capacity at the lowest possible cost. The culture is inclusive, welcoming bold ideas and empowering individuals to see them through to completion.
Requirements
- 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 manufacturing, process, industrial engineering experience.
- Experience in oral and written communication.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production.
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience.
- Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
- Experience troubleshooting issues and root cause 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.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the design and development of server products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners.
- Work closely with customers to understand their technical needs and business goals, leveraging experience with server design and knowledge from various teams to architect solutions for large-scale deployment.
- Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team 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 their quality and customer requirement fulfillment post-launch.
- Continuously look for ways to improve product performance, quality, and cost.
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
