Sr. Hardware Engineer , Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability

Within Amazon, Annapurna Labs team is building the next generation cloud server infrastructure. Our success depends on delivering world-class server infrastructure; we're handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. Our servers include accelerators such as AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium which are machine learning products designed to deliver high performance at low cost.

The Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability Team is part of Amazon Annapurna Labs focused on Machine Learning products that designs cutting AI platforms for the world’s largest Cloud Services provider. We are seeking a talented and motivated Sr. Hardware Engineer with a proven track record of implementing best in class test techniques and processes within a complex supply chain in Asia. As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team, you will be the interface between the ASIC, system engineering team and the ODM and CM partners in Asia.

As a Sr. Hardware Engineer you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design infrastructure technologies. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and debug and failure analysis in manufacturing process

The successful candidate will be capable of making wide-ranging business decisions on behalf of the organization and willing to “roll up sleeves and do what needs to get done” to consistently deliver results. We’re changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge.

* Be responsible for the test validation of future technologies.

* Drive manufacturing process quality improvements to address quality and reliability concerns.

* Design and Qualify manufacturing Test Automation station. test fixture and mechanisms for mass production

Lead identifying and validating product/component issue and work with design teams to mitigate them and define the test methodology and test coverage speed up the root causing, repairing failure product from manufacturing or return from fleets

* Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.

* Working with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize product manufacturing and quality expectations.

Key job responsibilities

- Work with system engineering teams to identify and escalate manufacturing challenges by enforcing DFM, DFA and DFT

- Evaluate, investigate and introduce new manufacturing testing technology and methodology to enhance product quality and production efficiency at ODM and CM

- Develop or adapt manufacturing test process at the ODM and CM, including critical assembly requirements, test methodology, test automation, signal integrity, power and heat management requirement

- Drive all factory-related failure related to assembly processes or compoenets during ore-production builds; ensure effective closure to enable operational success of the new product introduction cycle, and contiunue reduce the failures products into mass production

- Manage product lifecycle changes, lead product quality and reliability improvement, and drive technical root cause for supplier defects

- Implement and optimize manufacturing 1st pass yields and final pass yield bom pile reduction from prototype through product ramp

- Work with engineering teams in US to clearly represent process and reviews to enable smooth New Product Introduction and changes, Support cost reduction and sustaining activities

- Travel to CM, JDM, ODM site

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Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in enginnering or equivalent, or 5+ years of electrical or mechanical engineering experience

- Experience in motherboard design, PCB design including schematic capture, stackup and circuit board layout

- Experience in hardware lab equipment such as digital scopes, logic analyzers, and soldering tools

- 5+ years of designing experiments and statistical analysis of results experience

- 5+ years of root cause analysis and process design experience

- Experience in working with external and internal partners throughout development and production

- Experience in development of production testing automation infrastructure including station testing fixture and deployment of production test suites

- Experience with failure analysis techniques to evaluate production, supplier and field failures to drive root cause analysis and resolution.

- Experience with DFM, design for test automation, and creating process documentation from scratch

Preferred qualifications

- Experience working proactively and independently, meeting deadlines, and delivering on projects and tasks

- Knowledge of CAD software like Orcad and Allegro

- Experience performing statistical analysis of data using SQL, Excel and other tools

- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities

- Experience using English communication skills, both written and verbal, to foster seamless interaction with stakeholders at all levels

- Experience in liquid cooling designs Experience in high power designs Good understanding of manufacturing strategy and DFMA best practices

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