Overview

Do you like to apply deep hardware engineering expertise to deliver simple, sustainable, and scalable solutions for large networks? Would you like to play a key role in driving the stability and efficiency of next-generation network infrastructure, starting from the silicon up?AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.We are looking for a Sr. Cloud Hardware Development Engineer (CHDE) with mechanical engineering expertise to join our Network Product Development (NPD) team. In this role, you will enable the components that form the backbone of AWS network interconnect. You will perform high-quality design, development, validation, and sustaining engineering of component, modules, and systems for high-speed applications, working closely with design teams, manufacturing partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver robust solutions at scale.Key job responsibilitiesCloud Hardware Development Engineers (CHDE) with a mechanical engineering focus perform high quality mechanical design, thermal management, packaging, and design for manufacturing (DFM) of optical modules and systems for AWS networking. They work closely with design teams, manufacturing partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver robust, manufacturable, and thermally optimized optical module solutions.- Collaborate with vendors/manufacturers to evaluate new mechanical and thermal design approaches, materials, and assembly processes for optical modules.- Develop and execute mechanical and thermal designs for optical modules and systems, including structural analysis, tolerance stack-up, and enclosure/housing design.- Perform thermal simulation and validation to ensure optical modules meet thermal performance requirements across all operating conditions.- Develop and automate test plans for structural verification, thermal characterization, mechanical reliability, and environmental qualification of optical modules.- Collaborate with vendors/manufacturers in defining and developing mechanical and thermal test plans to validate designs through prototyping and production.- Drive design for manufacturing (DFM) initiatives, working with operations teams to improve manufacturing yields, optimize assembly processes, and reduce cost.- Work with operations teams in identifying quality issues, improving manufacturing yields, and optimizing RMA processes for optical module hardware.A day in the lifeOn an everyday basis as part of our team, you have the unique opportunity to understand the growing AWS network and our internal customers' requirement on interconnect solutions and their components. You'll work backwards to devise hardware solutions by influencing the broad industry and/or to develop tools with sister teams to maintain a highly available network that delights AWS customers. You design and implement processes and mechanisms that both help the team to deliver business impact to the organization in a systemic way, while also helping to raise the bar on our operational excellence.Operating at the scale we do, there is no blueprint