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 program management for all Manufacturing Automation Design & Engineering projects, driving execution from concept through production deployment. You manage the complete project portfolio: milestone tracking, resource coordination, cross-functional dependency management, risk identification, and stakeholder communication. You are the single-threaded owner for on-time delivery of automation projects, ensuring the team meets its commitments. You run weekly program reviews, manage escalation paths, and drive accountability across engineering, operations, and contract manufacturer teams.

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 project portfolio: milestone definition, tracking, and delivery accountability
• Drive cross-functional coordination across Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, and contract manufacturer teams
• Manage project risks, dependencies, and escalations; proactively identify and mitigate blockers
• Run weekly program reviews and produce executive-ready status communications
• Define resource allocation across concurrent automation projects and platform priorities
• Own automation deployment timelines aligned to product launch schedules
• Track and report project-level ROI, cost, and timeline metrics
• Coordinate with contract manufacturer program teams on automation integration milestones


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.