Senior Hardware Engineer, NPD Hardware

Job Summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. 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. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.

Amazon Web Services’ Network Products Development team is looking for an experienced hardware engineering professional to help build our next generation networking platforms. The right candidate will play a key role in the design and development of our next generation Ethernet switching platforms for our world‑class datacenters.

You will serve as a design lead in the networking field, defining architecture, specifying key components, detailed design, working closely with PCB designers, testing, and transition to manufacturing. You will apply skills in simulation, timing analysis, thermal analysis, and EMC.

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures.
• Experience in motherboard and PCB design including schematic capture, stack‑up and circuit board layout.
• BSEE with 10+ years of hardware board and system development, must have taken products from concept to mass production.
• Recent 5+ years experience with Ethernet switching fabrics, Ethernet PHY and Ser Des interfaces, embedded CPU subsystems, DDR2/DDR3/DDR4 memory design, network processors, I2C, USB.
• Experience with high‑speed PCB design and AC/DC PI.
• Recent 5+ years of experience in CPLD/FPGA design using VHDL or Verilog.
• Experience troubleshooting with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and specialized test equipment such as PCI analyzers and in‑circuit emulators.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, must be organized.
• Experience as a project and technical lead; program management skills is a must.
• Experience interfacing with cross‑functional teams such as mechanical engineers, HW engineers, SI engineers, diagnostic engineers, and manufacturing engineers.
• Experienced interfacing with outside vendors and developers, particularly Asian CMs and Asian ODM/JDM partners.
• Ability to travel up to 10% to Seattle and Asia; must be able to enter Taiwan and China without visa issues.

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production.
• Experience with the project management of technical projects.
• Experience in server technologies such as thermal, mechanical, power, and signal integrity.
• Experience defining and implementing modular chassis functions such as system redundancy, hot‑swap, power distribution, environmental control and system management.
• CPLD/FPGA experience in advanced HW control/monitoring/logging.
• Experience in specifying mechanical enclosures.
• Asset experiences: analog design, signal integrity analysis, DC‑DC switcher design, EDVT, and MDVT.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and the 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, and parental leave.

Posted: April 15, 2026