Manufacturing Engineer, Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability

Amazon Inc.; Florence (KY); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Annapurna Labs, a subsidiary of AWS, is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to drive test validation and process improvements for Trainium-focused platforms in the Florence/Cincinnati area. You will interface with system engineers, ODMs, and CM partners to ensure quality and reliability across manufacturing stages.

You will lead test methodologies, participate in design-for-manufacturability decisions, and mentor junior engineers while coordinating with multiple suppliers to meet mass production

Qualifications

• Master's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering or 2+ years of equivalent experience in a manufacturing environment.
• 2+ years of Manufacturing Engineering work experience with server platforms or high‑tech hardware.
• 2+ years working with manufacturing suppliers to improve incoming quality of systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage manufacturing technical operations support at the factory.
• Provide on-site support to new product launches and sustaining issues.
• Design in quality and manufacturability on new server designs.
• Root cause customer impacting issues and drive resolution.
• Collaborate with design teams to mitigate risks and define test methodologies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
• Work with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability expectations.
• Implement and optimize first pass yields and efficiency from prototype to production ramp.

Skills

Industrial manufacturing engineering

Server hardware experience

supplier quality improvement

Education

Master's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering

Job description

Manufacturing Engineer, Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability

Annapurna Labs is building the next generation cloud server infrastructure. Our success depends on delivering world‑class server infrastructure; we're handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. Our servers include accelerators such as Trainium and Inferentia which are machine learning products designed to deliver high performance at low cost.

The Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability Team at Annapurna Labs is focused on Machine Learning products that design cutting edge AI platforms for the world’s largest Cloud Services provider. We are seeking a talented and motivated Manufacturing Engineer with a proven track record of implementing best in class test techniques and processes within a complex supply chain. As a member of the Cloud‑Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team, you will be the interface between the system engineering team and the ODM and CM partners.

As a Manufacturing Engineer you will engage with an experienced cross‑disciplinary staff to conceive and design infrastructure technologies. You will work closely with an internal inter‑disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test in manufacturing. A successful candidate will be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will:

• Be responsible for the test validation of future technologies.
• Drive manufacturing process improvements to address reliability issues and concerns.
• Qualify manufacturing lines and mechanisms for mass production
• Lead identifying and validating product/component risks and work with design teams to mitigate them and define the test methodology and test coverage to assure product quality
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
• Working with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability expectations.

The successful candidate will be capable of making wide‑ranging business decisions on behalf of the organization and willing to “roll up sleeves and do what needs to get done” to consistently deliver results. We’re changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage manufacturing technical operations support at the factory
• Provide On‑Site support to new product launches as well as sustaining issues
• Design in quality and manufacturability on new designs of servers and racks
• Root cause customer impacting issues and drive resolution
• Work with system engineering teams to identify and accelerate manufacturing challenges by enforcing DFM, DFA and DFS principles
• Evaluate, investigate and introduce new manufacturing technology and methodology to enhance product quality and production efficiency at ODM and CM
• Manage product lifecycle changes, lead product quality and reliability improvement projects, and drive technical root cause for supplier defects
• Implement and optimize manufacturing 1st pass yields and efficiency from prototype through production ramp

LOCATION: This role is open to sit near Florence, KY, or Cincinnati, OH, and will spend most of their time at one of the Florence, KY facilities.

About the team

Annapurna Labs is a wholly owned subsidiary of AWS, focused on developing custom silicon and servers including the Nitro(K2), Graviton, Inferentia, and Trainium families of processors.

Machine Learning Annapurna functions as a vertically integrated team including software, firmware, hardware, and silicon design in a single organization.

We are the Trainium Servers and Systems organization under MLA focused on Hardware Development, Software Development, Fleet Ops Systems, and Manufacturing, Quality, and Reliability.

This position is in the Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability team.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering, or 2+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
• 2+ years of Manufacturing Engineering work experience with server platforms or on high‑tech hardware
• 2+ years working with manufacturing suppliers to improve incoming quality of systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience in project management, or experience leading technical teams through daily operations and maintenance evolutions

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, KY, Florence - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.