Sr Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer, Amazon Leo - Sustaining Engineering

About the position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission

is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the

world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and

performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to

schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations

operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

We're looking for a hands-on Sr Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer with a

background in the requirements management, design for manufacturing,

hardware/software development for hardware test.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and

regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent

resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S.

as a refugee or granted asylum.

This is a role for a highly collaborative individual who will help us with

optimizing for high volume production and meeting cross discipline requirements.

We are looking for an engineer who combines superb technical and analytical

capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly

and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development test system validation
• Lead software/hardware integration testing
• Lead innovative software/firmware/hardware architectures and flows for

multiple manufacturing test lines

• Lead review and analysis on data using tools such as MATLAB, Python, or

similar.

• Support and organize the release of the software and hardware system documents

through gate reviews

• Investigate and troubleshoot yield issues during prototype and production

builds

• Write status and/or build reports for cross-functional review
• Drive and prioritize execution of system test campaigns
• Design and develop software/scripting test setups and supporting hardware for

various subsystem validation of the satellite bus.

• Identify and analyze the cross-functional tradeoffs between design

alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity,

and scale.

• Drive cross-functional schedules, test requirements, specifications and limits

with the hardware development team

• Work concurrently with the design engineers to provide design for testability

(DFT) feedback throughout the design process

• Support production and integration efforts for hardware subsystems.
• Define test strategy, implement and optimize test setup/processes at the CM

including design and qualification of test fixtures, test equipment, and test

software

• Develop procedures, preventative maintenance plans, and troubleshooting guides

to support production

• Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans

in support of program learning, technical risk reduction, verification, and

validation

Requirements

• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby,

Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and

scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• 5+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and

process improvement experience

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or

equivalent

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with distributed systems at

scale

• Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to

leadership and to stakeholders

• Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers
• MS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science, or

equivalent experience

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave