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As a Cloud Hardware Development Engineer, you will be an end-to-end owner of accelerator (AI/ML/GPU) server platforms — from New Product Introduction (NPI) through fleet health in production. You own the full lifecycle: design, development, qualification, launch, and ongoing operational excellence of servers running at scale in the AWS fleet.
You will work closely with internal customers to understand their technical needs and business goals, leveraging your experience with server design and the knowledge of various teams to architect solutions we deploy at scale. To deliver your products, you will work with an interdisciplinary team of component, firmware, power, mechanical, electrical, test, qualification, manufacturing engineers, and lead our ODM (design and manufacturing partners) to bring these servers to the data center. After launch, you own the fleet — monitoring quality, driving reliability improvements, and ensuring servers continue to meet customer requirements throughout their operational life.
This role demands deep technical curiosity and the willingness to jump in and personally solve the hardest problems. When a complex system failure occurs — whether during NPI qualification or in a production fleet of hundreds of thousands of servers — you roll up your sleeves, dive into the details across hardware, firmware, software, and physical layers, and drive to root cause. You don't wait for someone else to figure it out.
You will own end-to-end system reliability — proactively identifying deficiencies and driving toward zero-touch operations where automation detects, diagnoses, and resolves issues before customer impact. You will decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features, leading delivery yourself and through others in parallel.
This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. You'll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas, hold high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and constantly look for ways to improve your products' performance, quality, and cost. We're changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.
Key job responsibilities
NPI — New Product Introduction
- Own the end-to-end NPI lifecycle for storage and/or accelerator (AI/ML/GPU) server platforms — from architecture definition through design, qualification, manufacturing ramp, and launch
- Lead technical solutions for complex server and rack system architectural challenges
- Work with ODM/manufacturing partners to develop, validate, and manufacture server products at scale
- Develop functional specifications, design verification plans, and test procedures
- Drive qualification and readiness milestones, ensuring new platforms meet performance, reliability, and cost targets before fleet deployment
- Identify and resolve technical risks early in the development cycle — don't let problems reach production
Fleet Health, Diagnostics & Automation
- Own fleet health for the server platforms you launch — reliability doesn't end at ship
- Design and implement predictive failure detection systems using telemetry, sensor data, error trending, and log correlation to identify hardware issues before they cause customer impact
- Drive toward zero-touch operations — help build detection, diagnoses, and remediation of faults without human intervention
- Debug complex system failures in time-sensitive settings — personally diving deep when the problem demands it
- Perform root cause analysis correlating across firmware, kernel, driver, thermal, power, and physical layers
Systems Design & Technical Depth
- Apply expertise across hardware, software, system design, x86 architecture, processes, and operations (compute, storage, network, GPU)
- Design and implement solutions to address system-level issues at large scale
- Decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features
- Collaborate with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management teams
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Work closely with internal customers to ensure new server hardware meets data path and control path requirements
- Identify early any potential problems onboarding new servers into customer ecosystems
- Collaborate across Hardware Engineering, component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration teams
- Partner with datacenter operations to close the loop between field failures and design improvements
A day in the life
Your day-to-day responsibilities include interfacing with internal and external customers to understand product requirements and facilitate system development on top of your server designs. You will learn operational challenges facing our existing fleet with the goal of improving the current customer experience and developing improved systems for future designs. You will work directly with vendors and ODM (manufacture partners) to scale your product. Some days you're reviewing a new platform design with your ODM; other days you're deep in logs and telemetry data chasing a failure mode across the fleet. You thrive on that range.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- 2+ years of hardware design, development and validation experience for server or compute platforms.
- Experience in one or more server technologies: thermal/mechanical design, power delivery, high-speed signal integrity, or accelerator subsystems.
- Experience developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and validation test procedures.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
- Experience testing hardware/mechanical sub-components, research and data analysis skills, and/or Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout best practices
- Experience in server technologies: board design, high-speed bus design and signal integrity, failure analysis, server components (CPU, GPU, SSDs, memory), BIOS, BMC, and networking
- Experience working with ODMs/manufacturer through the product development and manufacturing lifecycle
- Experience building predictive failure detection or proactive remediation systems at fleet scale
- Experience with storage/compute/GPU/accelerator platforms including integration, diagnostics, or performance validation
- Experience with large-scale datacenter or cloud environments
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, Cupertino - 157,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
As a Cloud Hardware Development Engineer, you will be an end-to-end owner of accelerator (AI/ML/GPU) server platforms — from New Product Introduction (NPI) through fleet health in production. You own the full lifecycle: design, development, qualification, launch, and ongoing operational excellence of servers running at scale in the AWS fleet.
You will work closely with internal customers to understand their technical needs and business goals, leveraging your experience with server design and the knowledge of various teams to architect solutions we deploy at scale. To deliver your products, you will work with an interdisciplinary team of component, firmware, power, mechanical, electrical, test, qualification, manufacturing engineers, and lead our ODM (design and manufacturing partners) to bring these servers to the data center. After launch, you own the fleet — monitoring quality, driving reliability improvements, and ensuring servers continue to meet customer requirements throughout their operational life.
This role demands deep technical curiosity and the willingness to jump in and personally solve the hardest problems. When a complex system failure occurs — whether during NPI qualification or in a production fleet of hundreds of thousands of servers — you roll up your sleeves, dive into the details across hardware, firmware, software, and physical layers, and drive to root cause. You don't wait for someone else to figure it out.
You will own end-to-end system reliability — proactively identifying deficiencies and driving toward zero-touch operations where automation detects, diagnoses, and resolves issues before customer impact. You will decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features, leading delivery yourself and through others in parallel.
This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. You'll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas, hold high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and constantly look for ways to improve your products' performance, quality, and cost. We're changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.
Key job responsibilities
NPI — New Product Introduction
- Own the end-to-end NPI lifecycle for storage and/or accelerator (AI/ML/GPU) server platforms — from architecture definition through design, qualification, manufacturing ramp, and launch
- Lead technical solutions for complex server and rack system architectural challenges
- Work with ODM/manufacturing partners to develop, validate, and manufacture server products at scale
- Develop functional specifications, design verification plans, and test procedures
- Drive qualification and readiness milestones, ensuring new platforms meet performance, reliability, and cost targets before fleet deployment
- Identify and resolve technical risks early in the development cycle — don't let problems reach production
Fleet Health, Diagnostics & Automation
- Own fleet health for the server platforms you launch — reliability doesn't end at ship
- Design and implement predictive failure detection systems using telemetry, sensor data, error trending, and log correlation to identify hardware issues before they cause customer impact
- Drive toward zero-touch operations — help build detection, diagnoses, and remediation of faults without human intervention
- Debug complex system failures in time-sensitive settings — personally diving deep when the problem demands it
- Perform root cause analysis correlating across firmware, kernel, driver, thermal, power, and physical layers
Systems Design & Technical Depth
- Apply expertise across hardware, software, system design, x86 architecture, processes, and operations (compute, storage, network, GPU)
- Design and implement solutions to address system-level issues at large scale
- Decompose complex server system problems (testability, reliability, diagnostics) into deliverable tasks and features
- Collaborate with hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management teams
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Work closely with internal customers to ensure new server hardware meets data path and control path requirements
- Identify early any potential problems onboarding new servers into customer ecosystems
- Collaborate across Hardware Engineering, component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration teams
- Partner with datacenter operations to close the loop between field failures and design improvements
A day in the life
Your day-to-day responsibilities include interfacing with internal and external customers to understand product requirements and facilitate system development on top of your server designs. You will learn operational challenges facing our existing fleet with the goal of improving the current customer experience and developing improved systems for future designs. You will work directly with vendors and ODM (manufacture partners) to scale your product. Some days you're reviewing a new platform design with your ODM; other days you're deep in logs and telemetry data chasing a failure mode across the fleet. You thrive on that range.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- 2+ years of hardware design, development and validation experience for server or compute platforms.
- Experience in one or more server technologies: thermal/mechanical design, power delivery, high-speed signal integrity, or accelerator subsystems.
- Experience developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and validation test procedures.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
- Experience testing hardware/mechanical sub-components, research and data analysis skills, and/or Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout best practices
- Experience in server technologies: board design, high-speed bus design and signal integrity, failure analysis, server components (CPU, GPU, SSDs, memory), BIOS, BMC, and networking
- Experience working with ODMs/manufacturer through the product development and manufacturing lifecycle
- Experience building predictive failure detection or proactive remediation systems at fleet scale
- Experience with storage/compute/GPU/accelerator platforms including integration, diagnostics, or performance validation
- Experience with large-scale datacenter or cloud environments
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, Cupertino - 157,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Hardware Engineer
Align your credentials before PERM begins
PERM requires your degree and experience to match the job's minimum requirements exactly. If your role requires a bachelor's in electrical engineering, a computer science degree may cause a denial, so document field overlap proactively before your employer posts the job.
Target employers with active EB-3 PERM filings
Search the DOL's PERM disclosure data to find companies that have filed hardware engineering PERM applications recently. Past filings signal an established sponsorship process, not just a willingness to sponsor in theory when you ask.
Search green card sponsoring jobs on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters hardware engineer roles by employers actively sponsoring employment-based green cards, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never run a PERM. Start your search there before reaching out to recruiters.
Request the prevailing wage determination early
Your employer must submit a prevailing wage request to the OFLC before advertising the role. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the wage level yourself first. A Level I wage can delay or complicate a senior hardware engineer petition.
Understand how your O*NET code affects PERM requirements
DOL cross-references your job duties against your O*NET occupation profile to verify the minimum education requirement is standard for the role. If your employer writes a job description that deviates from O*NET norms, expect a PERM audit.
Clarify whether EB-2 or EB-3 applies to your offer
If the role requires only a bachelor's degree, your employer will likely file under EB-3. If you hold a master's or the position genuinely requires one, EB-2 may be available. The distinction affects your priority date and wait time, not just the petition type.
Green Card Hardware Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a hardware engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most hardware engineer positions qualify for EB-3 when the minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field. EB-2 applies when the role genuinely requires an advanced degree or when you have a master's and the employer structures the position accordingly. Your employer's attorney determines the category based on the actual job requirements, not your personal credentials alone.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for hardware engineers?
An H-1B visa is a temporary work visa requiring renewal and tied to a single employer, with annual cap constraints affecting many candidates. EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency with no recurring visa renewal. There's no annual cap lottery at the EB-3 petition stage, though visa number backlogs affect nationals from high-demand countries like India and China.
How long does the PERM process take for a hardware engineering role?
PERM labor certification alone currently takes several months to over a year depending on DOL processing times, and that's before your employer files the I-140 petition with USCIS. From PERM filing to receiving your green card, the full timeline often runs two to four years for candidates from countries without a visa backlog, and significantly longer for Indian or Chinese nationals due to per-country limits.
Where can I find hardware engineer jobs with green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for hardware engineer roles at employers with documented green card sponsorship activity, so you're not sorting through generic job listings and guessing who sponsors. Filtering by sponsorship history upfront saves significant time compared to asking about sponsorship late in an interview process.
Can I switch employers after my hardware engineer PERM is filed?
Changing employers resets the PERM process because the labor certification is tied to the specific employer and job. However, if your I-140 has been approved and your priority date is current or your application has been pending for 180 days, portability rules under AC21 may allow you to move to a similar hardware engineering role without losing your place in the queue.