Lead Harness Quality Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon•Bellevue, WA

About The Position

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. 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. The Leo team is looking for a Lead Harness Quality Engineer who will lead a team of harness quality engineers to define requirements and deploy processes to deliver aerospace quality at unprecedented scale. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with excellent analytical abilities, strong technical skills, effective written and verbal communication, and most importantly, a passion for design quality assurance to produce high-quality, mission-critical harnesses in volume production.

Requirements

Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
Familiarity with MIL-STD-461, IPC/WHMA-A-620, or similar EMI and harnessing standards
Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
Experience developing and executing PPAP
Experience conducting supplier quality system and process audits
Experience driving supplier RCCA
5+ years experience as Electrical Engineer designing wiring harness for large electrical systems

Nice To Haves

Experience working with contract manufacturing for wiring harnesses
Experience designing wiring systems for space environments w/ EMI
Hands on experience in hardware debug and automated verification
Awareness of industry standards and regulations (SAE, ISO, IPC, etc.)
Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
Experience with the project management of technical projects
Experience in project management of technical programs
Experience working in aerospace, medical, or other regulated environments
Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
Experience in spacecraft or high-reliability electronics environments
Experience with harness design and testing methods (DWV, IR, NEXT, FEXT, TDR, VSWR, etc.) for complex systems
Experience with ECAD software KiCad, Altium, Expedition, and/or Mentor Graphics
Strong cross-functional coordination skills with avionics, systems, test, and harness manufacturing teams

Responsibilities

Responsible for the design quality assurance of electrical harnesses (including harness components and hardware, connectors, backshells, cable and wire) for power distribution, grounding, RF, communication and high-speed data signal.
Electrical Integrity Ownership: Lead analysis and mitigation strategies for signal degradation, transient susceptibility, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in test harnesses, flight harnesses and test systems.
Partner with design engineering, reliability engineering and test engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle to influence harness design and interconnects to ensure electrical signal integrity.
Serve as the go-to owner for root cause analysis (RCA) of harness anomalies.
Own and lead Leo quality management activities for all harnesses including requirements definition, part qualification, production process validation, receiving/source inspection, CAPA, metrics reporting, and continuous improvement
Guide product development teams on supplier selection, assessment, audit and development decisions
Partner cross-functionally to define Leo Quality System in compliance with AS9100 & IS09001
Scale supplier processes and quality systems to reduce defects with increasing volumes
Be a subject matter expert in the disciplines of vendor process management and quality control
Lead external audit teams
Influence supplier selections and engineering design decisions to factor sustainable quality
Influence supplier investments to reduce risk and improve quality of components
Establish and monitor supplier mechanisms for verifying production processes remain in control
Analyze and improve supplier quality metrics
Represent Leo Supplier Quality in cross-functional initiatives
Travel as needed to accomplish program objectives
Participates in product development teams as owner of supplier quality system requirements
Acts with internal customer obsession on behalf of Leo production by reducing defect rates and driving root cause analysis
Builds and enforces implementation of the Leo Quality System
Serves as the face of Leo Quality for suppliers communicating expectations, reviewing methods and resolving issues
Facilitates component quality control as subject matter expert in partnership with receiving and inspection teams
Owns development and automation of business processes impacting quality
Splits time between Amazon facilities and visiting supplier operations