Systems Development Engineer, Manufacturing Test Infrastructure, Project Kuiper

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

11h

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.

Manufacturing Systems Engineering Test Infrastructure Team under Amazon Leo
Prod-Ops is responsible for delivering improvements on the throughput and
quality of testing for satellite components. We partner with engineering and
production teams to bring reliability and repeatability to our systems, increase
throughput and accelerate testing. We are looking for a System Development
Engineer to optimize tests for Satellite hardware at contract manufacturing
sites and Amazon Leo factory locations. Candidate will need to use data analysis
to identify opportunities to optimize provisioning and testing processes and
partner with design engineering, software teams, and Contract Manufacturer site
representatives to implement solutions. You will work across the org with many
software and hardware teams identifying requirements, prioritizing critical
efforts and providing updates to senior management and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Windows and Linux operating systems
• Experience leading process improvements
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization
• Experience with embedded software
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
• Experience working with contract manufacturers (CMs)

Responsibilities

• Lead and conduct complex system-level analyses across multiple subsystems to evaluate design alternatives and optimize manufacturing test infrastructure architecture
• Develop and implement processes to facilitate communication of system design/architecture with partner teams including contract manufacturers, software teams, and hardware engineering
• Lead technical risk assessments and failure mode identification for manufacturing test systems, establishing test strategies and acceptance criteria
• Derive and synthesize requirements for system efficiency, operational excellence, and user experience across the manufacturing test infrastructure
• Identify and frame needs for analyses that balance impact and feasibility, conducting trade off studies to optimize test system design
• Lead collaboration across diverse technical teams (software, hardware, RF) to establish design goals and technical specifications
• Propose and implement changes to systems and architecture that improve performance, robustness, and extensibility
• Identify and escalate execution and technical dependencies in relation to schedule, managing cross-functional trade-offs

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed