Sr Hardware Development Engineer, High Performance AI & ML Servers

Job Title

Join the team building the foundation of the world's most advanced cloud for AI training and inference — where multi-billion-parameter models come to life at scale.

Here, you'll design, deliver, and operate next-generation infrastructure that powers breakthrough innovation in AI/ML and HPC workloads. If you're passionate about pushing the limits of performance, efficiency, and scalability in the cloud, this is your opportunity to build the systems that define what's next for AWS — and for the entire AI industry.

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

Key Job Responsibilities

Lead technical solutions for complex high performance server 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

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 on top of your server design. You will be responsible for solving 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.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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, PowerShell, 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