Senior Hardware Engineer, CPU & Memory Performance

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,200 - 215,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on payments

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon's AWS EC2 team in Seattle is seeking a Sr Hardware Development Engineer to drive CPU and memory performance across server platforms. You will own complex performance improvements, collaborate with CPU/GPU suppliers, and guide architecture decisions from concept to deployment.

In this role you will work with cross-functional teams to design, validate, launch, monitor and troubleshoot high-scale systems while ensuring thermal budgets are respected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years identifying & root-causing HW/SW issues in large scale systems.
• 5+ year of experience with customer support for successive debugging/root-causing cpu performance issues
• 5+ years of experience in cpu/memory architecture and subsystem design
• 5+ year of experience with new cpu technology bring up
• 5+ years experience with statistical analysis using large scale data
• 5+ years of experience with leading memory standardization through JEDEC, CPU architecture, RAS, DDR Memory technology, system performance, security and troubleshooting
• Repeated success leading architecturally significant projects from inception through launch, including communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and produce technical designs
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering of server hardware and software to maximize performance within thermal budgets.
• Collaborate with CPU/GPU suppliers to align roadmaps and architectures.
• Interface with cross-functional teams to design, validate, launch, monitor and troubleshoot at large scale.
• Drive performance improvements and diagnose CPU/memory issues in production

Skills

CPU architecture

Memory architecture

Root-cause analysis

Performance debugging

Statistical analysis

System design

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Electronics Engineering or related discipline

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Amazon's AWS EC2 team in Seattle is seeking a Sr Hardware Development Engineer to drive CPU and memory performance across server platforms. You will own complex performance improvements, collaborate with CPU/GPU suppliers, and guide architecture decisions from concept to deployment.

In this role you will work with cross-functional teams to design, validate, launch, monitor and troubleshoot high-scale systems while ensuring thermal budgets are respected.