Drimva

Amazon

Principal Tech Ops Engineer, AWS Rack Manufacturing

$166K–$260K

Salt Lake City, UT · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026

Experience
10+ years of technical program management experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, project engineering in a manufacturing environment experience; or degree or equivalent in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

About the job

Leads regional, multi-vendor AWS hardware manufacturing operations, scaling capacity, supplier performance, production technology, and operational standards.

What you'll do

  • Set long-term manufacturing strategy and capacity plans; lead supplier onboarding, site enablement, and complex manufacturing programs.
  • Drive production transformation, including liquid-cooled rack manufacturing, automation, smart-factory adoption, and a planned Manufacturing Center of Excellence.
  • Own operational performance, continuous improvement, risk mitigation, and cost and delivery outcomes across manufacturing sites.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of technical program management experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, or project engineering in a manufacturing environment; the posting also lists a degree or equivalent in specified quantitative or technical fields.
  • Knowledge of operating systems, hardware, storage, network, security, database administration, and cloud infrastructure; experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, or material handling equipment.
  • Experience applying technology and lean/Six Sigma methods to improve processes and communicating results to senior leadership through financial and operational reports.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or above in a listed engineering, management, technology, operations, supply chain, or business field.
  • Experience deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU, or other AI acceleration hardware; or computer architecture experience.

Pay

165,700.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, LLMs, GPUs, Neuron, TPU, IoT, manufacturing execution system

AI focus

Champion AI-driven quality inspection and Industry 4.0 adoption; preferred experience includes deploying LLMs in production on AI acceleration hardware.

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