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Principal Engineer, AWS Hardware Engineering

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/2/2025
Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering (HWEng) team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazon’s innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in performance, frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and the more than one million customers who use AWS today. Our Principal Engineers help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies. They work on our hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. They think globally when building systems, ensuring Amazon.com builds high performing, scalable systems that fit well together.

The AWS Hardware Development team creates compute, storage, and edge-server designs that drive innovation across our web services. We own the hardware design life cycle, manage systems that ensure every piece of server hardware is healthy and manageable, and build essential software that interfaces with cutting-edge embedded systems all over the world. If you want to do work that makes an impact, you belong at AWS.

You’ll work in a fast-paced, collaborative culture that offers more opportunities to take risks, extend your skills, and transform how our customers run their businesses. The scope and scale of AWS drives continual change, so you’ll embrace ambiguity and collaborate to create custom solutions that delight our customers and advance our technology. Join our team and help us redefine what’s possible with the cloud.

Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Their expertise is deep and broad. They are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

Ideal skill-sets include: Hardware Development, Thermal and Mechanical Design, Firmware and Embedded Systems, Quality and Reliability, Test, and Materials

Basic Qualifications

  • 10 years of experience in server technologies, including: electrical, mechanical, thermal, and software.
  • 8 years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Materials Science or a related field
  • Experience developing and operating hardware at scale

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $147,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $254,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2828526

Salary : $147,000 - $254,100

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