Manufacturing Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

9h

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.

We're looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to lead production development.

As the Manufacturing Engineer for a Line Replaceable unit at Amazon Leo, you
will be directly responsible for the production process development,
introduction, improvement, & maintenance of a key module on our next generation
spacecraft. You’ll be the leading technical voice for a team of manufacturing
engineers working on the product, solving challenging technical problems
associated with delivering an ultra-high-performing optical, electrical, and
mechatronic module to space.

You will serve as a key lynchpin connection design/development, factory
operations, quality engineering, program management, and more as you drive the
manufacturing processes, we use from initial production introduction to full
rate production. You will leverage your expertise in systems design to partner
with development on the design of future iterations of the system and
sub-assembly and our associated production test systems & tooling.

You’ll solve complex industrial challenges associated with balancing production
velocity, exceptional quality, and cost competitive production concepts while
ensuring smooth technical execution of current production operations. You’ll be
a key animating force in the increase in production capacity through vision &
execution of capital investment for production scaling & automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
• 3+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
• Familiarity with Low-Rate Manufacturing Environments & New Product Introduction
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing practices & principles
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis Techniques such as Fishbone, Fault Tree, DMAIC, or related technologies/processes
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• Experience using statistical tools such as Minitab
• Experience in oral and written communication

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, develop, and improve production processes (assembly, integration, test processes) through collaboration/leadership of a team of manufacturing engineers.
• Serve as primary technical interface to development team, participating as the lead technical voice from the factory in Design Reviews, key technical escalations, and new product development activities.
• Support operations team directly by being a high solving power engineer, capable of bringing multiple diverging technical perspectives together in high pressure escalation moments such as quality containments.
• Own the capacity increase roadmap for production including defining the relevant capital equipment required for rate increase and helping to lead the design, procurement, install, and qualification of new rate enabling equipment.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level