Hardware Validation Engineer, NPD Hardware
About The Position
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring customers have continual access to innovation. This role is within the Network Products Development (NPD) team, focused on building next-generation networking platforms for AWS data centers. The engineer will play a key role in the design and development of next-generation Ethernet switching platforms. The position requires a passion for testing and its role in product reliability and quality, with expectations to develop new test processes, automation, and debugging skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
- Experience performing PCB schematic and layout reviews to ensure specification compliance
- Knowledge of power and thermal design and validation
- Experience performing hardware validation, including high-speed I/O, low-speed I/O, voltage regulator and evaluating results
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 2+ years of data center experience, or experience in networking
- Experience with test strategy design for automated functional and system testing
- Experience using scripting languages, such as Python
- Understanding of electrical engineering design principles, transmission-line theory, SI/PI analysis, PCB PDN design, and high-speed circuit designs
- Experience using high speed Logic Analyzers and Oscilloscopes, TDR/VNAs, Power Meters, etc
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement detailed validation plans tailored to specific hardware designs
- Collaborate with design and production teams to understand and test against product requirements
- Analyze and interpret data from validation tests, offering insights and recommendations
- Design and document validation processes, findings, and insights in a structured and clear manner
- Component specification study and component validation
- Oversee and plan the use of validation equipment to guarantee consistent results
- Work cross-functionally to troubleshoot and address any hardware issues identified during validation
- Second source qualification, cost down design validation and manufacturing efficiencies
- Support new product introduction and Sustaining engineering
- Develop and contribute in testing automation
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
Senior
