Production Yield & Manufacturing Delivery
Own manufacturing readiness gates and production yield tracking from first build through volume ramp. Monitor first-pass yield by test stage, drive root cause analysis on excursions, and ensure corrective actions close before yield issues compound. Track ODM delivery cadence, line throughput, and supply chain continuity.
Fleet Operations & Feed-Forward
Maintain fleet-level program visibility: AFR targets, unsellable resolution velocity, and component lifecycle risk. Own the feed-forward cadence — ensuring fleet failure patterns, manufacturing yield data, and vetting escapes translate into requirements and test content for next-generation programs.
Dashboards & Mechanisms
Build and own mechanisms for program visibility — defining metrics, dashboards, and review cadences that enable data-driven decisions and early risk detection. Define leading indicators: unsellable inflow/outflow rate, NPI milestone velocity, first-pass yield by test stage, and component lifecycle risk. Streamline delivery processes across teams; identify and eliminate dependencies, redundant gates, or coordination overhead that slow velocity.
Risk & Quality
Challenge technical workstreams to surface risks early; quantify impact to schedule and reliability (annualized failure rate targets, availability SLAs) with proposed mitigations. Drive root cause analysis of fleet-wide hardware failures and ensure corrective actions flow back into qualification criteria and design requirements. Define acceptance criteria, coordinate qualification testing at server and rack levels, and manage go/no-go decisions for mission-critical storage services.
May require occasional (<10%) regional and international travel to Design and Manufacturing Partner sites.
A day in the life
You start the day syncing with ODM partners across time zones on build status and open engineering actions. Mid-morning, you run an engineering review connecting firmware, software, and hardware teams to unblock a qualification gate. In the afternoon, you lead the weekly feed-forward review — translating fleet failure patterns into test content requirements for the next-generation program. You end the day reviewing NPI milestone readiness and updating the production yield dashboard before the ODM delivery cadence call.
About the team
The Storage Server Hardware Engineering team designs and delivers the storage platforms that power Amazon S3, EBS, and other critical AWS storage services. We own our platforms cradle-to-grave: from architecture definition through NPI, manufacturing, fleet deployment, and end-of-life. Our sustaining engineers are the backbone of fleet reliability — ensuring that deployed platforms continue to meet quality and performance targets throughout their operational life.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent
6+ years of technical product or program management experience, working directly with multiple engineering teams.
6+ years of experience driving hardware development programs (servers, racks, networking, or storage) through full product lifecycle including design, validation, manufacturing, and fleet deployment
Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of experience coordinating complex server programs with ODM/JDM partners across multiple geographies, managing design reviews, manufacturing readiness gates, and quality checkpoints
5+ years of experience working with storage server platforms or NVMe/SSD infrastructure across NPI qualification phases (EVT, DVT, PVT)
Experience driving root cause analysis and corrective action processes for hardware reliability issues at fleet scale
Knowledge of server hardware development lifecycle: electrical/mechanical design, firmware, thermal/power validation, and manufacturing testing.
Experience driving zero-touch automation or fleet health programs for large-scale infrastructure
Experience communicating engineering trade-offs and technical risks in business terms to leadership.
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USA, CO, Denver - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
