Hardware Development Engineer AWS AI & ML, Mainstream Accelerators

Join the team building the foundation of the worlds most advanced cloud for AI training and inference where multi-billion-parameter models come to life at scale. Here youll design deliver and operate next-generation infrastructure that powers breakthrough innovation in AI/ML and HPC workloads. If youre passionate about pushing the limits of performance efficiency and scalability in the cloud this is your opportunity to build the systems that define whats next for AWS and for the entire AI industry.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities
As a member of the Hardware Engineering team you will own and lead the design development and root cause of a new segment of accelerated servers.

You will work closely with our customers to understand their technical needs and business goals leveraging your experience with server design and the knowledge of various teams to architect the solutions that we will deploy at scale.

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.


A day in the life
Your day to day responsibilities will include interfacing with our internal and external customers to understand project requirements and facilitate system development ontop of your server design. You will be responsible for learning operational challenges to our existing fleet with the goal of improving the current customer experience as well as developing improved systems for future designs. You will work directly with vendors and ODM/JDM design teams to develop and manufacture your product at scale.



About the team
The team is comprised of both Hardware Design Engineers System Design Engineers Software Development Engineers and Technical Program Managers all with the common goal of delivering the best specialized server fleet possible to our customers.

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The Hardware Engineering AI / ML development team is a group of engineers and technical program managers directly responsible for launching hardware in the fleet. Located out of Seattle Cupertino and Austin we work on programs with global development teams (both internal and external to Amazon). Our servers are located in datacenters globally.

The members of our team have a diverse set of technical backgrounds but all share a common trait of Bias for Action and strong Ownership. We enjoy applying a startup model of delivering fully functional solutions for our customers.

- Experience in developing functional specifications design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Experience in server technologies such as thermal mechanical power and signal integrity
- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

- Masters degree in electrical engineering computer engineering or equivalent
- Experience in project management of technical programs
- Experience in compute and storage server architecture and design for large scale applications
- 10 years of server storage networking or large-scale distributed systems experience

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 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. Learn more about our benefits at CA Cupertino - 157300.00 - 212800.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually