Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer, Amazon Leo
About The Position
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. This is a broad scoped position providing manufacturing engineering support of multiple assemblies for the Leo's satellite program. You will be supporting new satellite assemblies early in the production ramp phase, providing critical design for manufacturability input and supporting testing of these assemblies. As an Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer for mechanical sub-assemblies, you will be supporting the production process development, introduction, improvement, & maintenance of key hardware on our next generation spacecraft. You will be supporting the lead Aerospace Manufacturing Engineers in solving challenging technical problems associated with ramping production.
Requirements
- 2+ years of working in mechanical / manufacturing engineering or equivalent experience
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with CAD modelling software, such as Solidworks or MATLAB
- Experience with process improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma
- Experience developing products for large volume production
Responsibilities
- Investigate and disposition non-conformances to support manufacturing.
- Participate in production equipment design, procurement, installation, and qualification.
- Support in material flow planning and manufacturing process definition.
- Ability to support space hardware testing, including tooling design and data analysis.
- Understanding of Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Testability (DFT) principles to optimize production processes and test efficiency.
- Familiarity with test equipment error logs and troubleshooting hardware and software integration problems.
- Identifying and resolving assembly issues to keep builds on schedule.
- Driving efficiency improvements through tooling, automation, and design or process changes.
- Collaborating with lead manufacturing engineers, design, tooling, dynamics, thermal, test and electrical engineering teams.
- 70% on the shop floor, working with production teams to review & solve key technical blockers in production, dispositioning non-conformances, and buying off hardware for flight.
- 15% independent development work analyzing production and test data to identify and implement key production improvement actions, acting on quality escapes by developing and implementing new quality control measures, developing & executing to existing roadmaps for capacity increase, process simplification, etc.
- 15% meeting settings, collaborating with others on topics such as new design introductions, production process change management, production solution finding reviews, etc.
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
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
