Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazons innovative web services. Our designs are industryleading 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 highquality server platforms and components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies. We are seeking experienced Thermal Mechanical Program Managers to work on the next generation of our cloud platforms. Our success depends on our worldclass server infrastructure; were handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies.
What you will do: As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team youll 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. Youll provide leadership in the application of new technologies to large scale server deployments in a continuous effort to deliver a worldclass customer experience. This is a fastpaced intellectually challenging position and youll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas. Youll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and youll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products performance quality and cost. Were changing an industry and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.
As a Technical Program Manager you will lead the development of products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners. You will manage these suppliers activities to design test certify manufacture and integrate parts into final product SKUs and then deploy them to data centers around the world. You will manage technology roadmaps and align the efforts of internal resources and vendors to deliver products that delight our customers.
Why it matters: Amazon has thousands of unique services both big and small that power the Retail website Amazon Web Services Echo Kindle Amazon Instant Video and more. These services run on hardware around the world. We continually need to deploy newer innovative and more efficient and cost effective hardware. Your work will drive efficiency and significant cost savings while improving the performance and reliability of our websites and services. Your work will touch development teams and customers around the world.
Why you will love it: You will have exposure to teams and leaders across the entire company. You will be a part of leading edge research and development team. You will see many aspects of the Amazon business. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to improve things for our developers. You will be part of a growing fast paced and fun team. You will have ownership and responsibility for defining and executing processes that deliver both savings and productivity for Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
A Technical Program Manager manages schedules writes narratives and leads across multiple organizations in large meetings and small working groups.
A day in the life
The Sr. Technical Program Manager for the mechanical/thermal team in Hardware Engineering Services spends the day managing multiple programs simultaneously driving vendors and internal program workstreams writing narratives and managing up.
About the team
The Hardware Engineering Mechanical/Thermal/Robotics (MTR) Engineering team owns the thermal and mechanical hardware designs of AWS servers and server racks and drives Operational Excellence endtoend related to thermal and mechanical issues.
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5 years of technical product or program management experience
7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
5 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multimillion dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.