Amazon is hiring: Hardware Development Engineer, Storage , AWS Hardware Engineer

Hardware Development Engineer, Storage, AWS Hardware Engineering

Job ID: 2706383 | 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. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering (HWEng) team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazon’s innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in performance, frugality, and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and the more than one million customers who use AWS today. Our Hardware Engineers solve challenging technology problems and build architecturally sound, high-quality server systems and components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies.

What you will do:

As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team, you’ll be responsible for the design of our server platforms and AWS-specific hardware components. You will interact with engineers across the company and work with an interdisciplinary team to execute product designs from concept to production, including design, development, validation, and the successful implementation of your work at large scale.

This is a fast-paced, challenging position, and you’ll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas. 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. We’re changing an industry, and we want team members who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Key job responsibilities

1. As Server Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for bringing new technology to our server & products as well as scaling how we operate our massive existing & rapidly growing fleet.
2. You will collaborate with internal development teams and external suppliers to deliver new servers with industry-leading performance and quality.
3. You will drive execution in defining and delivering new products and services.
4. You will lead the integration and delivery of servers, support the development of automated monitoring, and failure analysis services to operate, debug, and scale our servers.
5. You will work closely with other AWS software teams to tailor and operate server solutions for the AWS environment.
6. You will support launching our servers into production and operating our fleet of servers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience in server-level design for compute, storage, accelerator segment, or other complex product design.
• 2+ years of experience leading ODMs and other suppliers in the product development and manufacturing processes.
• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures.
• Experience in board and server root cause analysis and resolution.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in complex product development such as servers, network switches, or other highly integrated devices with hardware, software, and service aspects.
• Expertise in early product definition and feature tradeoff analysis.
• Expertise in product development disciplines such as thermal, mechanical, power, FW/SW, reliability, and sustaining.
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production.
• Proficient scripting, debug abilities, and Linux operations commands.
• Experience deploying and operating hardware and applications across large data centers.
• Experience leading hardware and software development engineering teams.
• Experience with hands-on debug of hardware systems such as with analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

#J-18808-Ljbffr