Annapurna Labs, as part of Amazon, is looking for a System Lead Engineer to be part of defining, shaping and integrating solutions for next generation of our cloud platforms. Our success depends on our world-class server infrastructure; we’re handling massive scale and rapid integration of emergent technologies. As a System Lead Engineer in the Nitro team, you will be responsible for defining Annapurna Labs’ Network Interface Card (NIC) hardware. Following the development and validation of our NIC, and bringing the NIC to mass production.

You’ll provide leadership in new technologies of the HW interfaces, bringing them to large-scale deployment, in a continuous effort to deliver a world-class customer experience. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with technical experts, senior leaders, and multiple areas of technology.

Key job responsibilities
As Lead engineer you’ll get involved with the first architecture discussions and through design development, readiness to production until product exposure to customer. You’ll handle hardware and software system related aspects, such as: architecture definition, mechanical design, thermal and power design, signal integrity of high speed interfaces (PCIe, High Speed Ethernet and DDR), boot flows, recovery flows, remote debug hooks, firmware live-update flows, system health monitoring sensor, report flow, etc... This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas. You’ll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products performance, quality and cost. We’re changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• 7+ years of hardware products development experience.
• At least 8 years' experience leading hardware products from design to mass production: life cycle, components selection, schematics, layout, thermal, mechanical design, review, hardware-software interfaces, and production testing and practical hardware lab.
• High-speed interfaces knowledge and debug capabilities- PCIe, Ethernet, DDR etc.
• Design/lab experience with at least at one of the following interfaces: DDR4/5, PCIe Gen3/4/5, 100/25/10GbE; Practical experience with high-speed lab equipment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in computer architecture
• Knowledge of scripting languages (bash, python, etc.)
• HW / SW / FW Integration experience
• Experience with operating systems, boot loaders, networking, and remote debugging
• Experience with mass production products.
• Experience in driving cross team and cross disciplinary activities.
• 3+ years’ experience working with systems and experience with their SW, FW and HW components

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