Sr Hardware Development Engineer, High Performance AI & ML Servers

Amazon
Cupertino, CA, USA / Austin, TX, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-05-26ONSITE

About the job

Do you want to shape the future of AI? Join the team building the foundation of the world’s most advanced cloud for AI training and inference — where multi-billion-parameter models come to life at scale. Here, you’ll design, deliver, and operate next-generation infrastructure that powers breakthrough innovation in AI/ML and HPC workloads. If you’re passionate about pushing the limits of performance, efficiency, and scalability in the cloud, this is your opportunity to build the systems that define what’s next for AWS — and for the entire AI industry.

Responsibilities

- Lead technical solutions for complex high performance server and/or accelerator server and rack system architectural challenges

- Own end-to-end system reliability, proactively identifying and resolving deficiencies before customer impact

- Design and implement solutions to address system-level issues at large scale

- Decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features

- Apply expertise across hardware, software, system design, x86 architecture, processes, and operations

- Collaborate with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain and product management teams

- Develop and implement diagnostic tools and monitoring solutions for production systems

- Debug complex system failures in time sensitive settings

Qualifications

Minimum

- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures

- Experience in server technologies such as, thermal, mechanical, power, and signal integrity

- Bachelor's degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- 5+ years of Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related experience

- 5+ years of process development experience

- Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal

- In depth expertise in one or more server technologies such as Thermal / Mechanical design, high speed bus design and signal integrity, failure analysis, server components (e.g. CPU, GPU, SSDs, memory), BIOS, BMC, and networking

Preferred

- Master's degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production

- 10+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience

- Experience working with engineering and product teams to define a product and bring it to market

- 5+ years of data center engineering or operations experience

- Experience in Linux/RHEL, or experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP) and experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities

- Experience with server validation and issue root causing

- Experience with leading hardware and software development engineering teams