Sr Hardware Reliability Engineer

$128,600 - $213,600/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

10,001+ employees

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About the position

The Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer at AWS is responsible for ensuring the reliability of cutting-edge compute and storage platforms. This role involves engaging with a cross-disciplinary team to design and validate future technologies, influence design for reliability, and provide technical leadership. The engineer will work closely with design teams to identify and mitigate product risks, perform reliability predictions, and mentor other engineers, all while contributing to the overall success of AWS's global infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the test validation of future technologies.
• Lead identifying and validating product/component risks and work with design teams to mitigate them.
• Define the test methodology and test coverage to assure product reliability.
• Deep-dive in technologies aligned with product roadmap.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
• Perform reliability prediction of failure mechanisms, products under development and products in the field.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Reliability Engineering, Physics, Material Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Reliability Engineering work experience with server platforms or high-tech hardware.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree or PhD in Reliability Engineering or related field.
• Demonstrated ability to uncover systemic issues prior to NPI.
• Working understanding of server components (CPU, GPU, memory, HDD, SSD, motherboard, thermal system, peripherals, etc.).
• Memory reliability working experience.
• Analytical, test plan, and test procedure development experience related to server platforms or high-tech hardware.
• Experienced leading reliability for complex systems.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals.
• Ability to thrive in a startup-like environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive failure analysis activities to root cause swiftly and accurately.
• Able to work in a diverse team.
• Reliability modeling and materials characterization experience.
• Ability to influence development teams, procurement and external partners.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits package.
• Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of total compensation.