Hardware Development Engineer II, Bespoke Solutions

Amazon • Arlington, VA

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About The Position

Join AWS as a Cloud Hardware Development Engineer to support the development of
next-generation cloud infrastructure hardware. Drive innovation in complex PCBA
designs utilizing state-of-the-art FPGA SoCs, working with world-class engineers
in our dedicated product development lab.

Within Bespoke Solutions, the Refactor hardware development team empowers Region
Services teams by eliminating reliance on external vendor constraints. We aim to
be the trusted partner of choice for our service teams, delivering comprehensive
product life-cycle support that enables them to scale at the pace of customer
demand. For teams choosing to develop hardware internally, we provide access to
our library of validated designs and proven processes to accelerate their
development timelines.

If Arlington, VA HQ2:

This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon
will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy
efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our
employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated
investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public
transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.

By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one
innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the
challenge? Come build the future with us.

This position requires that the candidate selected must be a US Citizen and
obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level.
Upon start, the selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate
clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Experience in motherboard design, PCB design including schematic capture, stackup and circuit board layout
• Experience with DFx (Design for cost, test, manufacturing)
• 3+ years of hardware engineering experience
• Experience with FPGA SoC hardware integration, hardware validation and debugging

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of hardware engineering experience
• Expertise in signal integrity and power integrity analysis and PCB design tools (Allegro, Altium, or similar)
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing and NPI processes
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret / SCI (or higher)

Responsibilities

• Development of complex PCB designs incorporating FPGA SoCs
• Support system-level hardware architecture decisions and technical requirements
• Support new product introduction (NPI) processes with contract manufacturers
• Develop and validate high-speed digital and mixed-signal circuits
• Ensure designs meet EMI/EMC compliance, thermal, and signal integrity requirements
• Partner with FPGA/firmware teams to define hardware interfaces and requirements
• Participate in design reviews and drive technical consensus across multiple teams

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level