Sr. GPU/Accelerator Hardware Development Engineer
Amazon· Hardware Development
Austin, TX, Cupertino, CA$159.2k - $215.3kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Lead system design and development for next-generation AI accelerator hardware (AWS Trainium) as part of Project Rainier, delivering high-performance server and accelerator hardware across full product life cycles in AWS data centers.
Responsibilities
- Lead hardware design, validation, and integration of hardware in the AWS fleet through its entire life cycle.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with AWS monitoring teams, Hardware Design, silicon, firmware, and system software teams to improve quality and reliability of fleet hardware.
- Drive end-to-end hardware development lifecycle from concept through production and deployment.
- Optimize hardware for performance, cost, and time-to-market in a fast-paced, start-up-like environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with high-speed system design and validation
- Experience with schematic and layout tools
- Experience driving ODM hardware development and testing and contributing to Production flow definition
- Strong knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals, power and signal integrity, and analog/digital circuits
- Ability to drive component selection and validation of electrical/mechanical components, cables
- Experience with hardware development processes and system development across full product life cycles
- Experience using lab equipment (bench power supplies, high-speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, thermal chambers)
- Experience with supply chain management
- Preferred: Lead end-to-end server hardware development lifecycle (concept to production)
- Preferred: PCB board design for server motherboards, accelerator carrier boards, high-speed interconnects
- Preferred: collaborate with silicon, firmware, and system software teams for HW/SW co-design
- Preferred: improve compute density, power efficiency, and network bandwidth utilization
- Preferred: root cause analysis for hardware issues during validation and production
Skills
Required:High-speed system design and validationSchematic and layout toolsHardware development lifecycleElectrical engineering fundamentalsComponent selection and validationHardware development processesLab equipment proficiency
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parential leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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