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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