Hardware Development Engineer, Amazon
Storage, AWS Hardware Engineering
$105.6-185k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$105.6-185k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience in server level design for compute, storage, accelerator segment or other complex product design
- 2+ years experience leading ODMs and other suppliers in the product development and manufacturing processes
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Experience in board and server root cause analysis and resolution
Desirable
- Master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in complex product development such as servers, network switches, or other highly integrated devices with hardware, software, and service aspects
- Expertise in early product definition and feature tradeoff analysis
- Expertise in product development disciplines such as, thermal, mechanical, power, FW/SW, reliability, and sustaining
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
- Proficient scripting, debug abilities, and Linux operations commands
- Experience deploying and operating hardware and applications across large data centers
- Experience leading hardware and software development engineering teams
- Experience with hands on debug of hardware systems such as with analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG
What the job involves
- As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team, you’ll be responsible for the design of our server platforms and AWS specific hardware components
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering (HWEng) team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazon’s innovative web services
- Our designs are industry-leading 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, high-quality server systems and components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies
- 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
- This is a fast-paced, challenging position, and you’ll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas
- You’ll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products performance, quality and cost
- We’re changing an industry, and we want team members who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today
- You will work directly with engineers across the company to build next-generation hardware
- You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for our customers
- You will be part of a growing, fast paced, and fun team
- You will have ownership for the implementation of your work
- AWS Hardware Engineering team is seeking experienced hardware design engineers to design and build next-generation server systems, and AWS specific hardware component.
- As Server Hardware Engineer you will be responsible for bringing new technology to our server & products as well as scaling how we operate our massive existing & rapidly growing fleet
- You will collaborate with internal development teams and external suppliers to deliver new servers with industry leading performance and quality
- You will drive execution in defining and delivering new products and services
- You will lead the integration and delivery of servers, support the development of automated monitoring, and failure analysis services to operate, debug, and scale our servers
- You will work closely with other AWS software teams to tailor and operate servers solutions for the AWS environment
- You will support launching our servers into production and operating our fleet of servers
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Company
Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Articles
Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 370 more jobs at Amazon