Systems Development Engineer, GPU & AI Accelerator Servers, AWS Hardware Engineering

Fleet Health & Data Analysis

• Analyze hardware failure patterns using fleet telemetry, system event logs, and datacenter tooling to identify root causes and quantify customer impact
• Contribute to predictive failure detection using sensor data, error trending, and log correlation
• Build and maintain operational dashboards and metrics for platform fleet health.
• Build tooling to track component lifecycle (firmware versions, part revisions, supply chain status) across large-scale fleets

Systems Development & Automation

• Develop and maintain automation for hardware test, firmware qualification, and capacity recovery workflows
• Develop diagnostic tools for Linux on ARM and x86 architectures
• Debug and resolve Linux boot and runtime issues across processor architectures - PCIe, Power, NIC, NVMe, and GPU subsystems
• Build automation solutions using Python, Java, or similar languages with focus on scalability and operational durability

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with software, hardware, manufacturing, networking, and vendor teams to validate and qualify new compute solutions
• Troubleshoot complex system-level issues in production environments, correlating across firmware, operating systems, drivers, and physical layers
• Participate in sprint-based planning and oncall rotation for platform-level escalations

A day in the life

Some days you are deep in system event logs chasing a failure pattern across thousands of hosts; other days you are writing automation that eliminates a manual triage workflow entirely. You work with hardware engineers, firmware teams, datacenter operations, and vendor partners - driving quality and reliability from manufacturing through steady-state operations. Located in Cupertino, Seattle, or Denver, you work with global development teams on servers deployed in datacenters worldwide.

About the team

AWS Hardware Engineering designs and delivers next-generation cloud infrastructure - the servers, accelerators, and storage platforms that power AWS. Our team builds custom systems for AI training, inference, and compute workloads at global scale. We are directly responsible for launching and maintaining server hardware in the fleet, working across internal development teams, and design partners.

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, CA, Cupertino - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

USA, CO, Denver - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually