Amazon
Director, HW Engineering, AWS EC2
$250K–$350K
Seattle, WA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 10+ years of hardware development; 8+ years of engineering management.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or commensurate experience.
About the job
Leads a server hardware product organization responsible for designing, integrating, manufacturing, and sustaining products across the global AWS fleet.
What you'll do
- Own the product lifecycle from NPI and design validation through launch, manufacturing ramp, and fleet sustaining; deliver quality, yield, throughput, and reliability outcomes.
- Lead teams through managers, develop the organization, and set multi-year technical and product strategy.
- Manage ODM and vendor relationships and partner across hardware, firmware, software, operations, and supply chain.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or commensurate experience.
- 10+ years of hardware development experience and 8+ years of engineering management experience.
- Experience delivering complex integrated hardware systems from design through volume manufacturing.
- Experience owning the full product lifecycle and partnering with product/program management while operating hardware at scale.
Nice to have
- Hyperscale datacenter server or rack experience; expertise in one or more listed hardware domains, design-for-manufacturing, ODM management, fleet operations, or scaling greenfield technology.
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant engineering discipline.
Pay
287,500.00 - 350,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 250,000.00 - 338,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
PCIe, GPU, x86/ARM, HDD/SSD
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