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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud Hardware Development Engineer, AWS Hardware Engineering Services, Specialized Platforms and Servers - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $157,300.0 - $212,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Data Centers, Software Debugging, Linux, Firmware, Hardware Design, Systems Development Life Cycle, Web Services, Network Switches, Scripting, AWS Data Analytics, Network Server - **Published:** August 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F4A7772E73FD41CF9B71C73D892419BE/job/ ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent, or 3+ years of relevant technical position experience. * 3+ years of experience in server level design for compute or other complex product design. * Experience in developing design verification plans and functional test procedures. * Experience in board and server root cause analysis and resolution., * 5+ years of experience in complex product development such as servers, network switches, or other highly integrated devices with hardware, software, and service aspects. * Proficient scripting, debug abilities, and Linux operations commands. * Experience deploying and operating hardware and applications across large data centers. * Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role * Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role ## Description Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering Services (HWEngS) owns the new product development (NPI) 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. Cloud Hardware Development Engineer (CHDE): The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering Services (HWEngS) Specialized Platforms and Servers team creates Enterprise rack solutions for Amazon's innovative web services. We are seeking experienced CHDEs to own the fleet health, diagnostics, and automation of the Enterprise rack solutions: 1.) Designing and implementing predictive failure detection systems using telemetry, sensor data, error trends, and log correlation to identify hardware issues before they cause a customer impact. 2.) Driving toward zero-touch operations by building detection, diagnostics, and remediation of faults without human intervention 3.) Debugging complex system failures in time-sensitive settings personally diving deep when the problem demands it. 4.) Completing root cause analysis correlating across firmware, kernel, driver, thermal, power, and physical layers. What you will do: As a member of the Specialized Platforms and Servers team, you'll be responsible for collaborating with Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service teams and Data Center Operations to maintain fleet health in all the locations we have servers. You will work closely with internal teams, suppliers, and external partners capturing lessons learned while operating the fleet to ensure next generation designs are of the highest quality, constantly looking for ways to improve your product performance, quality and cost., As a CHDE you will be responsible for scaling how we operate our massive existing & rapidly growing fleet. You will lead the integration and delivery of servers, support the development of automated monitoring, and failure analysis services to operate, debug, and scale our servers. You will work closely with other AWS software teams to tailor and operate servers solutions for the AWS environment. You will support launching our servers into production and operating our fleet of servers. A day in the life Your day to day responsibilities will be solving operational challenges to our existing fleet with the goal of improving the current customer experience as well as developing improved systems for future designs. 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