Sr. SDE - CPLD / FPGA

About the Position

Sr. SDE - CPLD / FPGA

Salary: $179,500 - $220,000 USD/yr

Location: Cupertino, CA

The AWS Hardware Engineering team develops server designs for Amazon's cloud services. Our designs prioritize frugality and operational excellence, supporting the AWS business and millions of customers who rely on AWS daily. Our engineers address complex technology challenges and build reliable, high-quality components that enable AWS to execute important business strategies.

The successful candidate for this role will be a motivated, proactive self-starter with strong curiosity. You will be a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) programmable logic expert with experience in digital hardware and embedded firmware, and committed to expanding your knowledge and skills. You will apply thorough understanding of server systems in your projects to identify optimal solutions for multi-factor problems. You will work with engineers across the company and external partners, leading development efforts through delivery and beyond. You will collaborate with internal and external development engineers across architecture, hardware, validation, and software services. AWS Engineers influence how people use computers and contribute to the future of cloud computing technology – join us in building what's next.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other essential roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver high standards for safety and security while providing scalable capacity at competitive costs for our customers. You'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them through completion.

Responsibilities

• Own comprehensive FPGA development, including architecture, design, work estimates, implementation, verification, and validation of new features and capabilities.
• Define and lead the technical work of other team members to meet program milestones.
• Contribute to companion firmware that interfaces with programmable logic design and system-level operations that utilize FPGA functions.
• Involved with firmware deployment, operational monitoring, debugging, and support to enhance fleet health.
• Mentor and develop junior team members, contributing to the team's technical direction, and supporting team growth to improve efficiency and quality.
• Engage in technical collaboration across teams, helping to develop solutions for complex system challenges.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
  • 8+ years of programming with at least one hardware description language (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog) experience

• Preferred Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Experience leading and influencing your team or organization
  • Experience with work breakdown and estimating design task effort

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive culture

About the Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.