Sr. Cloud Hardware Manufacturing Engineer

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

- Own module manufacturing quality at transceiver vendors, CMs, and ODMs - from new-product introduction (NPI) through volume ramp and sustaining production.

- Provide on-site support to new product launches at vendor and manufacturing sites.

- Design in quality and manufacturability on new optical module, AEC, and DAC designs, partnering with the design team to catch producibility and test-coverage gaps before production.

- Establish and qualify module manufacturing and test processes - define test coverage, process controls, and acceptance criteria, and drive them to adoption across partner organizations.

- Root cause customer-impacting and early-life module failures and drive resolution with the vendor, feeding corrective actions back into the process.

- Monitor module quality in the fleet and build mechanisms to remediate large-scale events and improve the health of our links.

- Drive continuous improvement in yield, cycle time, and manufacturing efficiency at our suppliers.

A day in the life

On an everyday basis as an engineer or scientist in our team, you have the unique opportunity to understand the growing AWS network and our internal customers' requirement on interconnect solutions, and work backwards to devise hardware solutions by influencing the broad industry and/or to develop software tools with partner teams to maintain a highly available network that delights AWS customers. You design and implement processes and mechanisms that both help the team to deliver business impact to the organization in a systemic way, while also helping to raise the bar on our operational excellence.

You'll bridge design, construction, and operations, ensuring that every layer of physical networking-from fiber trunks to copper patching -meets high standards of performance, reliability, and scalability.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering

- 2+ years of Manufacturing Engineering work experience with high speed interconnect platforms.

- 5+ years of product development experience

- 5+ working with manufacturing suppliers to improve incoming quality of systems

- 5+ years Experience reducing cycle time and improving labor efficiency

Preferred qualifications

- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, or experience working in electrical engineering field

- Experience managing strategic partnerships with manufacturing partners, defining engineering standards and quality frameworks adopted across partner organizations.

- Expertise in optical and electrical interconnect test methodologies at system level.

- Experience with manufacturing of pluggable optics, AEC, and DACs (i.e., SFP, SFP+, QSFP, QSFP-DD, OSFP)

- Track record of leading cross-functional teams and driving complex technical decisions that impact product quality and time-to-market.

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