Amazon
Lead Engineer for Manufacturing and Datacenter Lab, Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability
$159K–$215K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience and 7+ years working directly with engineering teams in cross-functional environments.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and lead a preparedness lab that connects Trainium manufacturing quality and testing with datacenter deployment and fleet performance.
What you'll do
- Own operational production performance across manufacturing, datacenter deployment, and fleet operations; build a lab that replicates datacenter conditions and validates assembly, repair, and test flows.
- Use field failure analysis and manufacturing data to drive root-cause investigations, process improvements, and hardware design changes.
- Build and mentor a cross-functional team and collaborate with manufacturing partners and datacenter operations.
What they ask for
- BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of industry experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Quality Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or Datacenter Infrastructure Engineering; 7+ years working directly with engineering teams in cross-functional environments.
- Experience carrying design concepts through development into deployment or mass production, and experience with AI/ML acceleration systems, high-performance computing servers, or complex multi-rack systems.
- Experience with mechanical and thermal design for air- and liquid-cooled systems; root-cause analysis; data analysis and programming with Python, Bash, Shell script, or Linux; and DFM.
Nice to have
- Experience managing datacenter operations, advanced high-volume manufacturing, or datacenter build-outs and scaling.
- Master’s degree in a related technical field; hands-on enterprise, sled-level, or rack-level hardware design; or experience with liquid cooling and thermal management for AI/ML workloads.
Pay
159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Bash, Shell script, Linux, ML
AI focus
Use ML techniques to predict field failures by connecting manufacturing test data with datacenter performance.
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