Director, Hyperscale Server Hardware Development

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 338,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a world-class Director, Hardware Development to own a server product family end to end. You will lead hardware design, system integration, and system engineering from NPI through ramp and sustainment, delivering reliable systems to a global AWS fleet.

You will partner with ODMs, firmware teams, and senior engineers to set multi-year strategy, drive roadmaps, and ensure manufacturing velocity and quality at scale.

Qualifications

• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Own a server product family end to end: hardware design, system integration, and system engineering, from NPI through launch and ramp.
• Own hardware quality and velocity for your product line, and be accountable for manufacturing yield and throughput targets.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through their managers; hire, grow, and develop managers and engineers, and scale the organization.
• Set the multi-year technical and product strategy for your product line and make long-term engineering decisions balancing innovation with reliability.
• 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 road-maps with partner teams.

Skills

Hardware design

Engineering management

System integration

NPI

Supply chain

ODM partnerships

Education

Bachelor's in EE/CE/ME

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Board design tools

Firmware interaction

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a world-class Director, Hardware Development to own a server product family end to end. You will lead hardware design, system integration, and system engineering from NPI through ramp and sustainment, delivering reliable systems to a global AWS fleet.

You will partner with ODMs, firmware teams, and senior engineers to set multi-year strategy, drive roadmaps, and ensure manufacturing velocity and quality at scale.