Senior Hardware Engineer, NPD Hardware

- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- BSEE with 5+ years experience in programmable logic design, must have taken products from concept to mass production
- Strong logic design skills, i.e. state machines, asynchronous/synchronous design, Boolean logic, etc.
- Verilog/SystemVerilog coding skills
- Advanced knowledge of compilation, place and route, timing closure and programming of CPLDs/FPGAs
- Working knowledge of source control / GIT repositories
- Working knowledge of automated builds, including Makefiles, bash scripts, and CI/CD environments
- Experience writing test benches
- Experience with code reviews
- Some C++ proficiency
- Experience managing outside (outside team or outside contractors) vendors on CPLD/FPGA development (documentation, interfacing to SW, development, PLD testing, system testing)
- Ability to debug code written by others
- Good verbal and written communication skills, must be organized
- Experience as a project and technical lead, program management skills is a must
- Experience interfacing with cross functional teams such SW engineers, HW engineers, diagnostic engineers, and manufacturing/test engineers
- While position is based in Cupertino, candidate should be able to accommodate up to 10% travel to both Seattle and Asia. Candidate must be able to enter both Taiwan and China without visa issues.
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
- Experience with the project management of technical projects
- Experience using Git/AWS CodeCommit repositories and other AWS builder tools such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and S3
- Board design experience
- Experience troubleshooting with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and specialized test equipment such as PCI analyzers and in-circuit emulators
- Experience defining and implementing modular chassis functions such as system redundancy, hot-swap, power distribution, environmental control and system management
- Experienced interfacing with outside vendors and developers, particularly Asian CMs and Asian ODM/JDM partners

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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.

Amazon Web Services’ Network Products Development team is looking for an experienced hardware engineering professional to help build our next generation networking platforms. The right candidate will play a key role in the design and development of our next generation Ethernet switching platforms for our world class data centers. Strong experience in modular chassis based enterprise/carrier products is a must.

Over the past few years, we have increasingly turned to custom features in our networking products implemented in programmable logic devices. These features include environmental monitoring and control, custom timing, and hardware acceleration.

The ideal candidate is a strong programmable logic designer with experience as a design lead in the networking field. Previous experience designing with programmable logic is required. This includes architectural definition, specification, detailed design, working closely with board designers and software engineers to implement programmable logic devices in our networking products, and supporting the validation team in manufacturing, test, and supporting our products in the field. Previous experience in board design and working with Asian ODM and JDM partners is a plus.

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