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# Sr Hardware Development Engineer, Performance, AWS Hardware Components

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Portland, OR, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $159,200.0 - $215,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Computer Engineering, Microarchitecture, Software Debugging, Hardware Design, Performance Tuning, Subsystems, Hardware Infrastructure
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=182f455ab969273b

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or related discipline
 * Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
 * 5+ years of experience identifying & root-causing HW/SW issues in large scale systems
 * 5+ year of experience with customer support for successive debugging/root-causing cpu performance issues
 * 5+ years of experience in cpu/memory architecture and subsystem design, * Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
 * 5+ year of experience with new cpu technology bring up
 * 5+ years experience with statistical analysis using large scale data
 * 5+ years of experience with with leading memory standardization through JEDEC, CPU architecture, RAS, DDR Memory technology, system performance, security and troubleshooting
 * Repeated success leading architecturally significant projects from inception through launch, including communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and produce technical designs
 * Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

## Description

AWS hardware Engineering is looking for a customer-obsessed, team-driven technology leader to take our engineering of server hardware and software to the next level. As a server performance leader, you'll work on Amazon's hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with AWS business needs. You will interact with internal and external interdisciplinary teams of engineers to design, develop, validate, launch, monitor and troubleshoot at large scale, ensuring servers are operating at maximum performance while staying within thermal budgets. You will work closely with CPU/GPU suppliers to align and influence roadmaps, driving future architectures. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. At AWS we are changing the industry and want individuals who are ready for a challenge to reach beyond what is possible today.