Systems Development Engineer, AWS Generative AI & ML Servers at Amazon
Seattle, WA
$129,200–$174,800from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and maintaining the health infrastructure for AWS's fleet of AI/ML accelerator servers. Day-to-day work spans writing automation for fault detection and remediation, developing Linux device drivers and diagnostic tooling across x86 and ARM platforms, debugging hardware and software failures at the system level, and collaborating with hardware engineering teams and ODM partners throughout a server's lifecycle from design through production operations.
Mid level · 3+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,400 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,800–8,300
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title 'Systems Development Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, so the title states no level. The Basic Qualifications gate on 3+ years of professional software development and systems design, which maps to Mid-level; the scope (fleet-wide automation, cross-team collaboration, hardware bring-up) is consistent with a strong Mid rather than Senior.
The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes automation software, diagnostic tooling, device drivers, and CI/CD pipelines (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also operates and maintains large-scale hardware fleet infrastructure (pointing to 15-1244). The primary deliverable is code and tooling, so 15-1252 was chosen, with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
The Basic Qualifications list overlapping experience tiers (2+ years and 3+ years of software development appear separately); the higher bar (3+ years) was used for the overall years minimum as it is the more demanding stated gate.
A Bachelor's degree in CS is listed as an alternative to the 3+ years experience requirement ('3+ years … or Bachelor's degree or above'), so the degree requirement is set to None — equivalent experience is explicitly accepted.
Skills such as GPU debugging, PCIe, BMC/IPMI, ARM, CUDA, telemetry pipelines, anomaly detection, and firmware appear only under Preferred Qualifications or in narrative/context sections, so they are marked preferred.
The posting mentions locations in Seattle, Cupertino, and Austin for the team; the compensation figure is explicitly labeled 'USA, WA, Seattle,' so Seattle CBSA is used. The role does not appear to be offered as fully remote.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems design.
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