Electrical Engineer, GSE Automation
About The Position
Project Kuiper 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 are hiring an Electrical Engineer to design and commission hardware for satellite production manufacturing and test applications. This is a highly collaborative position that interfaces with Project Kuiper production, engineering, and IT infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 3+ years industrial system design - control layout and schematics
- 3+ years experience in the field with installing, commissioning, and trouble-shooting industrial equipment
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Expert knowledge with a wide range of industrial control equipment and precision measurements including sensors, pneumatics, vision systems, fieldbuses, PID Controllers, etc.
- Experience programming and designing HMI, SCADA and other control network components
- Experience applying electrical design standards such as NEC, NFPA 79, UL508A, and ISO 13849
- Experience with IT systems like IP Networking, Server Architecture, SQL Databases, and cloud technology.
- Additional high-level programming skills (C#, Python, SQL)
Responsibilities
- Work with design, manufacturing, and production teams to create solutions to improve production safety, quality, and rate.
- Architectural design of industrial controls - component selection and control panel layout.
- Electrical schematics for industrial controls systems - using the GSE Automation ECAD environment and standards, produce high quality documentation for end-users.
- Motion control applications - apply knowledge of pneumatics, electric motors, and closed loop control to design electromechanical automation systems.
- Industrial control programming - configuration and software for PLC, HMI, and data acquisition.
- Commissioning, troubleshooting, training, and long-term ownership for industrial control systems that you design and deliver to production.
Benefits
- Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $105,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market.
- Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- Amazon is a total compensation company.
- Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
General Merchandise Retailers
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
