Manufacturing Engineer, Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability

Leading the manufacturing of AI Servers and Systems based on Trainium chips across cross-geographical ODMs and CMs. As part of the Manufacturing Quality and Reliability Team in Annapurna Labs focused on Machine Learning products that designs cutting AI platforms for the worlds largest Cloud Services provider.

Within Annapurna Labs team is building the next generation cloud server infrastructure. Our success depends on delivering world-class server infrastructure; were handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. Our servers include accelerators such as Trainium and Inferentia which are machine learning products designed to deliver high performance at low cost.

The Trainium Manufacturing Quality and Reliability Team is part of Annapurna Labs focused on Machine Learning products that designs cutting AI platforms for the worlds largest Cloud Services provider. We are seeking a talented and motivated Manufacturing Engineer with a proven track record of implementing best in class test techniques and processes within a complex supply chain. As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team you will be the interface between the system engineering team and the ODM and CM partners.

As a Manufacturing Engineer you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design infrastructure technologies. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition execution and test in manufacturing. A successful candidate will be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will:

* Be responsible for the test validation of future technologies.
* Drive manufacturing process improvements to address reliability issues and concerns.
* Qualify manufacturing lines and mechanisms for mass production
Lead identifying and validating product/component risks and work with design teams to mitigate them and define the test methodology and test coverage to assure product quality
* Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
* Working with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability expectations.

The successful candidate will be capable of making wide-ranging business decisions on behalf of the organization and willing to roll up sleeves and do what needs to get done to consistently deliver results. Were changing an industry and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge.

Key job responsibilities
- Work with system engineering teams to identify and escalate manufacturing challenges by enforcing DFM DFA and DFS principles
- Evaluate investigate and introduce new manufacturing technology and methodology to enhance product quality and production efficiency at ODM and CM
- Develop or adapt manufacturing process at the ODM and CM including defining fixture requirements critical assembly requirements test methodology signal integrity power and heat management requirement
- Drive all factory-related operational issues related to assembly processes during pre-production builds; ensure effective closure to enable operational success of the new product introduction cycle and put products into mass production
- Manage product lifecycle changes lead product quality and reliability improvement projects and drive technical root cause for supplier defects
- Implement and optimize manufacturing 1st pass yields and efficiency from prototype through product ramp
- Work with engineering teams to clearly represent process and reviews to enable smooth New Product Introduction and changes
- Support cost reduction and sustaining activities

About the team
Annapurna Labs is a wholly owned subsidiary of AWS focused on developing custom silicon and servers including the Nitro(K2) Graviton Inferentia and Trainium families of processors.
Machine Learning Annapurna functions as a vertically integrated team including software firmware hardware and silicon design in a single organization.
We are the Trainium Servers and Systems organization under MLA focused on Hardware Development Software Development Fleet Ops Systems and Manufacturing Quality and Reliability.
This position is in the Manufacturing Quality and Reliability team.

- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Experience identifying bugs in architecture algorithms functionality and performance with strong overall debugging skills
- Experience verifying at multiple levels of logic from IP blocks to SoCs to full system testing

- Masters degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering or a related field
- Experience with formal verification techniques including abstraction and end-to-end checking
- Experience with ARM and various DSP ISAs
- Experience with current and upcoming RF standards in cellular (4G/5G NR) WiMAX 802.11ad microwave backhaul or related broadband wireless standards
- Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation

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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $219900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.