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Amazon Web Services' Hardware Engineering team is looking for experienced professionals to help build the world's premier cloud computing platform. The Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering team designs, validates, and deploys automation solutions, including robotics, cobots, vision inspection, AI-powered quality systems, and automated assembly workflows, across contract manufacturer sites worldwide.
About the Role: You will own end-to-end automation process engineering for the Ultraserver (AI/ML accelerator) platform family. This includes defining automated assembly sequences, specifying robotic cell requirements, developing process validation protocols, and driving automation deployment at contract manufacturer sites for this high-complexity platform

You serve as the single-threaded owner for all automation decisions affecting Ultraserver production, working with central engineering specialists (robotics, vision, controls, mechanical) to apply their capabilities to your platform's unique requirements. You translate platform-specific product design characteristics into automation process specifications. You work closely with the Product Design vertical (Hardware Engineering) to manage automation requirements, participate in design reviews, and provide early-stage feedback on assembly compatibility and design-for-automated-assembly considerations.

You serve as the point of contact for automation during New Product Introduction (NPI), supporting the product design team in transitioning new Ultraserver platforms from prototype to production-ready automated assembly, ensuring automation readiness is built into the NPI process from the earliest stages. You also partner with the Manufacturing Process Quality vertical to define quality verification requirements for automated stations, validate process capability, and ensure automation solutions meet quality targets before production sign-off.
The scope covers all server and rack assembly across all architectures and platforms, including compute, AI/ML accelerators, storage, and networking. The team designs intelligent, predictive-analytics-driven production systems where every station is sensor-driven, AI-optimized, and self-correcting, turning assembly lines into programmable, data-generating platforms that scale capacity without scaling headcount

This role requires the engineer to operate in a fast-paced, multi-platform international manufacturing environment with travel to contract manufacturer sites (up to 25-30% travel anticipated).
Key job responsibilities
Own the complete automation process specification for Ultraserver platform assembly
Define automated assembly sequences, station allocations, and process parameters for platform-specific operations
Partner with Hardware Engineering to influence product design for automated assembly compatibility
Develop process validation protocols (IQ/OQ/PQ) for automated stations on Ultraserver lines
Drive automation deployment and ramp at contract manufacturer sites for the Ultraserver platform
Identify automation opportunities specific to Ultraserver architecture and drive business case development
Coordinate with central engineering specialists (robotics, vision, controls) to apply solutions to platform needs
Own platform-specific automation KPIs: throughput, quality yield, automation rate, and cycle time targets
Collaborate with Manufacturing Process Quality to define quality verification requirements and validate process capability for automated stations
Serve as the automation point of contact during NPI, supporting product design teams in transitioning new Ultraserver designs to production-ready automated assembly
Partner with Hardware Engineering (Product Design vertical) to manage automation requirements and participate in design reviews for new Ultraserver configurations
About the team
About the team: The Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering team is building a centralized automation Center of Excellence that owns the process specification and IP for how AWS hardware gets assembled. The team is responsible for engineering, defining automated process requirements, designing and proving solutions at proof-of-concept, and maintaining AWS-owned intellectual property that scales globally. The team works within a collaborative framework across Hardware Engineering (product design for automation), Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering (process specification and validation), and Manufacturing Operations (deployment and scaling), ensuring automation is engineered once, proven once, and deployed everywhere.