Lab Infrastructure and Operations Manager, Annapurna Labs Silicon

Amazon • Austin, TX

12d • $139,300 - $208,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Sr. Technical Manager to lead a team responsible for designing, building, operating, and scaling the critical lab and data center infrastructure that accelerates silicon development and validation. This role involves owning the strategy, design, construction, and ongoing operations of lab environments. It is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on physical infrastructure buildout and managing the operational excellence of a live, production-class lab environment. The position requires operating in ambiguous spaces, defining goals, building teams, establishing processes, and influencing stakeholders across various organizations to deliver results that directly impact AWS's ability to ship custom silicon faster.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in data center operations, critical facility infrastructure, lab engineering, or network engineering
• 3+ years of experience directly managing technical teams (networking engineers, facility/operations engineers, or DC technicians)
• Deep technical knowledge of data center power and cooling systems (UPS, generators, PDUs, chillers, CRAHs, CDUs, liquid cooling)
• Experience designing or operating data center network infrastructure (spine-leaf architectures, BGP/OSPF, 100G/400G fabrics)
• Experience with MW-scale power distribution design and capacity planning.
• Demonstrated ability to lead facility buildout or expansion projects from design through commissioning
• Experience establishing operational metrics, SLAs, and incident management processes for critical infrastructure

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in engineering, management, or technology, or Master's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Background in silicon development lab environments, hardware validation, or chip bring-up operations
• Hands-on knowledge of liquid cooling technologies (direct-to-chip, rear-door, immersion) and thermal management at high rack densities
• Experience with BMS systems and infrastructure monitoring/observability tools
• Network engineering depth in network routing, network automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python)
• Track record of building teams and operational processes from scratch in data center environments
• Experience managing vendor relationships, capital equipment procurement, and construction project delivery

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and construction of lab and data center environments, including power (MW-scale), cooling (air/liquid), structured cabling, and network fabric.
• Define technical requirements including electrical capacity planning, thermal modeling, rack density, and redundancy architectures.
• Drive infrastructure decisions across UPS, PDUs, generators, switchgear, chillers, and emerging technologies.
• Own full lifecycle from design through commissioning and decommissioning of data center infrastructure.
• Lead networking engineers in designing and operating high-performance lab network fabrics (spine-leaf, 400G+).
• Own operational excellence, including availability, capacity management, change management, and incident response.
• Establish monitoring/alerting across all systems, define SLAs, and drive automation of operational workflows.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary, multi-location team of networking engineers, DC operations, and facility engineers.
• Define vision and goals working backwards from silicon engineering needs.
• Attract and develop exceptional talent; build future leaders through coaching and delegation.
• Manage trade-offs between tactical operations and long-term strategic buildouts.
• Establish scalable, repeatable processes for facility operations and lab provisioning.
• Drive standardization to reduce mean-time-to-provision.
• Influence senior leaders through written narratives and partner cross-functionally with silicon engineering, hardware design, security, and real estate teams.

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)

What This Job Offers

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