Hardware Development Engineer AWS AI & ML, Mainstream Accelerators

Amazon • Cupertino, CA

23h

About The Position

Join the team building the foundation of the world’s most advanced cloud for AI
training and inference — where multi-billion-parameter models come to life at
scale. Here, you’ll design, deliver, and operate next-generation infrastructure
that powers breakthrough innovation in AI/ML and HPC workloads. If you’re
passionate about pushing the limits of performance, efficiency, and scalability
in the cloud, this is your opportunity to build the systems that define what’s
next for AWS — and for the entire AI industry.

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. And you’ll experience an inclusive
culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

As a member of the Hardware Engineering team you will own and lead the design,
development and root cause of a new segment of accelerated servers.

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.

Your day to day responsibilities will include interfacing with our internal and
external customers to understand project requirements and facilitate system
development ontop of your server design. You will be responsible for learning
operational challenges to our existing fleet with the goal of improving the
current customer experience as well as developing improved systems for future
designs. You will work directly with vendors and ODM/JDM design teams to develop
and manufacture your product at scale.

The team is comprised of both Hardware Design Engineers, System Design
Engineers, Software Development Engineers and Technical Program Managers, all
with the common goal of delivering the best specialized server fleet possible to
our customers.

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.

The Hardware Engineering AI / ML development team is a group of engineers and
technical program managers directly responsible for launching hardware in the
fleet. Located out of Seattle, Cupertino and Austin we work on programs with
global development teams (both internal and external to Amazon). Our servers are
located in datacenters globally.

The members of our team have a diverse set of technical backgrounds but all
share a common trait of Bias for Action and strong Ownership. We enjoy applying
a startup model of delivering fully functional solutions for our customers.

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 in electrical engineering or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience in project management of technical programs
• Experience in compute and storage server architecture and design for large scale applications
• 10+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience

Responsibilities

• As a member of the Hardware Engineering team you will own and lead the design, development and root cause of a new segment of accelerated servers.
• 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.
• Your day to day responsibilities will include interfacing with our internal and external customers to understand project requirements and facilitate system development ontop of your server design.
• You will be responsible for learning operational challenges to our existing fleet with the goal of improving the current customer experience as well as developing improved systems for future designs.
• You will work directly with vendors and ODM/JDM design teams to develop and manufacture your product at scale.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level