Principal Manufacturing Engineer, Hardware Engineering

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Description
Amazon Web Services' Hardware Engineering team is looking for experienced professionals to help build the world's premier cloud computing platform. We are looking for Principle Manufacturing Engineers who are capable of operating in a fast paced, ever changing, multi-platform international manufacturing and production environment. Our Principal Manufacturing Engineers work closely with our ODMs, CMs, internal AWS hardware and software development teams, and with upstream component vendors to monitor and improve the incoming hardware quality of AWS products both proactively in the design phase as well as monitoring, reporting and investigating any early-life product failures. This role requires the engineer to be a technical contact and take on full ownership of the manufacturing launch and resolution of process issues. You will be the driver in getting production up and running, understanding root cause of hardware failures and resolving gaps in our suppliers manufacturing processes. Further you will accomplish this both by directly making changes, and coaching other manufacturing engineers to deliver products quickly and at a high quality level.

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.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop and improve organizational processes to optimize the launch of new products
• Manage quality at CM, ODM and vendors
• Provide On-Site support to new product launches
• Design in quality and manufacturability on new designs of servers and racks
• Root cause customer impacting issues and drive resolution

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in manufacturing, industrial, mechanical, or electrical engineering or other related technical degree
• Experience in electronics manufacturing inclusive of some process engineering
• Experience in product development
• Experience in lean manufacturing implementation
• Experience conceptualizing, designing, assembling and debugging tools and fixtures
• Experience reducing cycle time and improving labor efficiency
• Experience in supplier component management

Preferred Qualifications

• Diverse experience across multiple roles within the electronics manufacturing and product development environment
• Experience with SMT and PCBA
• Six Sigma black belt
• Experience with Datacenter Operations
• Experience in supply chain for electronics manufacturing

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