Amazon
Sr Hardware Development Engineer, CPU and Memory Performance Team
$159K–$215K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 25, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Portland, OR - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the stated areas; no alternatives specified.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related discipline.
About the job
Leads server hardware and software performance engineering, optimizing AWS servers within thermal budgets and influencing future CPU/GPU architectures.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, validate, launch, monitor, and troubleshoot server systems at scale.
- Identify and resolve hardware/software and CPU performance issues while maintaining maximum performance within thermal budgets.
- Collaborate with internal teams and CPU/GPU suppliers on engineering roadmaps and future architectures.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures.
- 5+ years of experience identifying and root-causing HW/SW issues in large-scale systems.
- 5+ years of experience supporting customers with successive debugging/root-causing of CPU performance issues, and 5+ years in CPU/memory architecture and subsystem design.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent.
- Experience with new CPU technology bring-up, large-scale statistical analysis, JEDEC memory standardization, and leading architecturally significant projects.
Pay
159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
HW/SW, CPU, GPU, JEDEC, RAS, DDR Memory
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