Hardware Validation Engineer, NPD Hardware

Hardware Validation Engineer, NPD Hardware

Job  | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers. You’ll collaborate across AWS to help deliver safety and security while providing capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.

• Develop and implement detailed validation plans tailored to specific hardware designs
• Collaborate with design and production teams to understand and test against product requirements
• Analyze and interpret data from validation tests, offering insights and recommendations
• Design and document validation processes, findings, and insights in a structured and clear manner
• Component specification study and component validation
• Oversee and plan the use of validation equipment to guarantee consistent results
• Work cross-functionally to troubleshoot and address any hardware issues identified during validation
• Second source qualification, cost down design validation and manufacturing efficiencies
• Support new product introduction and Sustaining engineering
• Develop and contribute in testing automation

A Day in the life

On an everyday basis you have the opportunity to understand the growing AWS network and internal customers’ interconnect requirements. You’ll design hardware solutions, collaborate with sister teams to maintain a highly available network, and implement processes that deliver business impact while raising operational excellence.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems
• Experience performing PCB schematic and layout reviews to ensure specification compliance
• Knowledge of Power and thermal design and validation
• Experience performing hardware validation, including high-speed I/O, low-speed I/O, voltage regulator evaluation

• Master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Experience with building data center networking products
• Experience with test strategy design for automated functional and system testing
• Experience using scripting languages, such as Python
• Understanding of electrical engineering design principles, transmission-line theory, SI/PI analysis, PCB PDN design, and high-speed circuit designs
• Experience using high speed Logic Analyzers and Oscilloscopes, TDR/VNAs, Power Meters, etc
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production

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