Job Description
DESCRIPTION Do you want to build the backbone of Generative AI cloud at AWS? Do you want to build the future of the cloud for AI training and inference? Want to do industry leading work delivering continuous price performance improvements in the cloud for AI model training for multi billion variable LLMs? Come Join us in designing, delivering and operating AWS cloud offerings that enable high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. You are intrigued by the continuous release of newer AWS services and instance types that solve newer, bigger and more interesting business problems every day? Does that make you wish your talents were applied to those at cloud scale? If yes, then come join us - we are looking for builders like you. The AWS Hardware Engineering team creates server designs for Amazon’s innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and millions of customers who use AWS today. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems, and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies. The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter. You are knowledgeable of the full technical stack - vertically from baremetal server hardware up to the software in userland, and everything in the middle. You have tremendous interest in cloud scale and curious how systems and software decisions impact the user. You insist on highest-standards and are able to develop tactical solutions/tools to diagnose and fix issues. You are an excellent systems debugger - finding interaction issues between components on server systems. You are a leader with strong organizational, planning, and communication skills. You are a builder! What you will do? You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS. You will be part of a growing, fast paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work. You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work. AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology – come help us make history! Why it matters? Public cloud IT services represent the majority of growth in the overall IT services market and will continue to do so for several years to come. The scale of AWS, combined with an understanding of how our software and hardware is used, creates a unique opportunity for component customizations that will directly benefit our customers. Why you will love it? You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS. You will be part of a growing, fast paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work. You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work. Key job responsibilities Be a technical leader for your team, setting the standards for engineering best practices and operational excellence. Lead projects that require the work of multiple engineers, combining new and existing hardware, software, systems, processes, and tooling appropriate to the task. Design technology solutions and architectures that solve complex business or technical problems related to server system testability, reliability, and diagnosis. Decompose difficult problems into straightforward tasks, components, or features that can be delivered in parallel by you and others. Own your team’s systems, proactively identifying and fixing extant risks, limitations, and deficiencies. Work to reduce complexity and enable greater agility for your team and partner teams. Partner with your manager and other team leaders to develop your team’s technical strategy. Be a key influencer in team strategy and goals, including influencing Technical Program Managers and Product Managers. Resolve the contributing causes of endemic problems, including architectural deficiencies and areas where your team limits the innovation of other teams. This may require influencing software and systems decisions made by other teams. Lead reviews of architecture, design, operations, process, or post-incident analysis for your team, and actively participate in those of other teams. Your process improvements enable teams in your organization to deliver more resilient products with less effort. Deliver solutions using the most appropriate combination of hardware, software, systems design, architecture, process, or operations. When the most appropriate solution requires expertise you lack, own th