The Trainium Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability (MQR) Team is part of AWS Annapurna Labs focused on Machine Learning products that designs cutting AI platforms for the world’s largest Cloud Services provider. As a Senior Reliability Engineer you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design infrastructure technologies. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test in manufacturing. A successful candidate will be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will:
* Be responsible for the test validation of future technologies.
* Drive manufacturing process improvements to address reliability issues and concerns.
* Qualify manufacturing lines and mechanisms for mass production
* You will have a fundamental understanding of Reliability statistics/Reliability tests and/or solid understanding of computer systems to influence design for reliability.
* Lead identifying and validating product/component risks and work with design teams to mitigate them and define the test methodology and test coverage to assure product reliability.
* Deep-dive in technologies aligned with product roadmap.
* Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
* Perform Reliability prediction of failure mechanisms, products under development and products in the field.
* Working with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability expectations.
Key job responsibilities
* Responsible for defining reliability tests to be implemented during manufacturing
* Drive manufacturing process improvements to address reliability issues and concerns.
* Perform Reliability prediction of failure mechanisms, products under development and products in the field.
* Working with multiple vendors and ODMs to standardize component manufacturing and reliability expectations.
About the team
Annapurna Labs is a wholly owned subsidiary of AWS, focused on developing custom silicon and servers including the Nitro, Graviton, Inferentia, and Trainium families of processors.
Machine Learning Annapurna (MLA) functions as a vertically integrated team including software, firmware, hardware, and silicon design in a single organization.
We are the Training Servers and Systems organization under MLA focused on Hardware Development, Software Development, Fleet Ops Systems, and Manufacturing, Quality, and Reliability.
This position is in the Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability team. - Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Reliability Engineering, Physics or related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of Reliability Engineering work experience with server compute platforms or on high-tech hardware
- Master's Degree or PhD in Reliability Engineering or related field
- Demonstrated ability to uncover systemic issues prior to NPI
- Working understanding of server subcomponents (CPU, memory, HDD, SSD, motherboard, thermal system, peripherals, etc.)
- Analytical, test plan, and test procedure development experience related to server compute platforms or with high-tech hardware
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals
- Ability to thrive in a startup-like environment
- Demonstrated ability to drive failure analysis activities to root cause swiftly and accurately
- Able to work in a diverse team
- Reliability modeling and materials characterization experience
- Ability to influence development teams, procurement and external partners
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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