Key job responsibilities
As the Director, Hardware Development, you will
Own a server product family end to end: hardware design, system integration, and system engineering, from NPI (New Product Introduction)and design validation through launch, manufacturing ramp, and in-fleet sustaining.
Own hardware quality and velocity for your product line, and be accountable for manufacturing yield and throughput targets and for resolving manufacturing-engineering defects.
Lead multiple engineering teams through their managers; hire, grow, and develop managers and engineers, and scale the organization to meet an aggressive roadmap.
Set the multi-year technical and product strategy for your product line and make long-term engineering decisions that balance innovation with reliability at scale.
Manage strategic relationships with ODM design and manufacturing partners (domestic and overseas)
Own fleet-reliability outcomes for your products (annualized failure rate, unsellable reduction, proactive defect remediation).
Partner across hardware, firmware, software, operations, and supply chain, and drive external roadmaps with partner teams.
A day in the life
You will work on problems that do not have textbook answers and where the questions themselves may not even be known. How do you take a new accelerator, compute, or storage server from a concept through qualification and ramp at an ODM, and into a global fleet that fails less than a fraction of a percent of the time over a ten-year life? How do you re-architect a design to hit manufacturing throughput targets for hundreds of thousands of units with minimal waste? How do you qualify a second source for a critical component to de-risk supply without slipping a launch? You will take hardware from a whiteboard sketch through design, manufacturing, and deployment at a scale almost nowhere else can offer.
About the team
EC2 Hardware Engineering is organized along a vertical (product) and horizontal (component and firmware) axis. Vertical teams own whole server products end to end; the horizontal teams own the cross-cutting components and firmware every product depends on. This role leads one of the vertical product organizations. We invest in bringing new members up to speed, and we think about each engineer's growth when we assign work.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or commensurate experience
10+ years of hardware development experience
8+ years of engineering management experience
Experience delivering complex integrated hardware systems (servers, racks, or comparable electro-mechanical/compute systems) from design through volume manufacturing
Experience owning the full product lifecycle: NPI, design validation, launch, manufacturing ramp, and in-field sustaining
Experience partnering with product/program management and operating hardware at scale
Experience designing and delivering datacenter server and/or rack systems at hyperscale
Deep experience in one or more of: board/system design, PCIe and high-speed signal integrity, power delivery and thermal, accelerator (GPU) systems, x86/ARM compute, or storage (HDD/SSD) systems
Design-for-manufacturing expertise; experience managing ODM partners (domestic and overseas) and component multi-sourcing/qualification
Experience operating a hardware fleet at scale: telemetry, real-time health, annualized-failure-rate reduction, and sustaining engineering
Experience with taking new greenfield technology initiatives or cutting-edge development to large scale production of integrated systems
Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant engineering discipline
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 Company’s 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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