Sr Electrical Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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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 Sr Electrical Engineer to lead process development and root cause analysis. As Engineer for a Line Replaceable unit at Amazon Leo, you will be directly responsible for failure root cause and analysis, production process development and improvement 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’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. The Optical Inter-Satellite Link Production team is a multi-disciplinary organization responsible for all aspects of production of the key modules enabling satellite-to-satellite communication. The Manufacturing Engineering Team is the technical arm of this organization, with 40+ engineers from all disciplines collaborating on all aspects of technical development & execution in production. As a Lead Engineer, you will be the technical leader of a team of 4-6 manufacturing engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Experience with analog, digital, and high-speed circuit design
• Experience in CAD skills, including being capable of developing an integrated automation layout unassisted
• 7+ years of experience with electro-optical hardware development, including analog/mixed-signal design..
• Experience with PCB design and debugging, including amplifiers, FPGAs, photodiodes, ADCs, sensors
• 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

• MS or PhD in Electrical with 5+ years’ industry experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of quality metrics, process characterization and mapping, Product Quality / Reliability / Improvement techniques, LEAN Manufacturing, DFM/DFT, and Continuous Process Improvement.
• Understand Design for Testability, Design for Manufacturability.
• 4+ years of embedded firmware development experience.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, develop, and improve production processes (assembly, integration, test processes) through collaboration/leadership of a team of manufacturing engineers.
• Serve as a technical lead on failure analysis. Drive yield improvement through process change.
• Develops standard rework procedures, test coverage improvements, and board-level DFM feedback.
• Investigate and introduce new manufacturing test technology and methodology to enhance production efficiency.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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