Senior Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Storage and Accelerators

Senior Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Storage and Accelerators

Job  | 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 the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team you will own and lead the design and development of server products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners.

You will work closely with customers to understand their technical needs and business goals, leveraging your experience with server design. 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.

• Lead technical solutions for complex storage and/or accelerator server and rack system architectural challenges
• Own end-to-end system reliability, proactively identifying and resolving deficiencies before customer impact
• Design and implement solutions to address system-level issues at large scale
• Decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features
• Apply expertise across hardware, software, system design, x86 architecture, processes, and operations
• Collaborate with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain and product management teams
• Develop and implement diagnostic tools and monitoring solutions for production systems
• Debug complex system failures in time sensitive settings

• 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 or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• 5+ years of Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related experience
• 5+ years of process development experience
• Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
• In depth expertise in one or more server technologies such as Thermal / Mechanical design, high speed bus design and signal integrity, failure analysis, server components (e.g. CPU, GPU, SSDs, memory), BIOS, BMC, and networking

• Master's degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• 10+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience
• Experience working with engineering and product teams to define a product and bring it to market
• 5+ years of data center engineering or operations experience
• Experience in Linux/RHEL, or experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, Power Shell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP) and experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
• Experience with server validation and issue root causing
• Experience with leading hardware and software development engineering teams

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