PCBA Manufacturing Engineer, Amazon Leo
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Job Location:
Bellevue, WA - USA
Monthly Salary:
USD 105600 - 185000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast affordable broadband to a wide range of customers including consumers businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in places 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.
As a Manufacturing Engineer for one or more Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBA) youll be directly responsible for bring engineering designs for complex electronic assemblies to reality. Youll work closely with the Design Engineering and Supplier Manufacturing teams to ensure new designs are optimized for manufacturing while driving improvements in yield cycle time and cost for existing hardware. Your expertise will be invaluable in bringing satellite hardware to life. Come solve the difficult and rewarding engineering challenges in developing a highly reliable power efficient performant low-cost satellite bus and payload.
You will work across design engineering supply-chain quality and our manufacturing partners to drive Amazon Leo electrical sub-system and PCBA manufacturing and delivery. You must have the ability to dive deep on the details to identify understand and solve difficult technical problems and also utilize a system level approach to prioritize issues for whole program. You use data to drive manufacturability reliability and quality objectives in design and development teams.
*Up to 50% Travel will be required for this role
Key job responsibilities
-Work with the Design Engineering team to provide PCB/PCBA DFM feedback. Identify and escalate PCBA manufacturing challenges early in product development.
-Drive the PCBA Manufacturing Qualification process at the CM. Define manufacturing readiness requirements and lead key milestone reviews to ensure all production readiness deliverables are complete.
-Investigate and develop new manufacturing technology and methodologies to enhance PCBA quality reliability throughput and cost.
-Drive closure of all operational issues during pre-production builds. Work within Operations Supply Chain R&D and Reliability Engineering to implement and optimize manufacturing processes and improve yields for production ramp.
-Investigate failures/defects in production test and integration. Identify and mitigate underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence as part of continuous improvement efforts.
-Identify opportunities for risk reduction and simplification of PCBA manufacturing processes.
-Deliver manufacturing processes capabilities including equipment capability quality controls materials characterization and standardized rework practices.
-Actively monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp. Provide regular status reports of PCBAs progress from design to production.
- 4 years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- 5 years of manufacturing process industrial engineering experience
- Experience with DFx (Design for cost test manufacturing)
- Experience working with fast-moving high-performance teams and driving innovative solutions tailored to unique business environments
- Experience in board assembly processes and equipment: Stencil paste print SPI pick & place SMT reflow AOI 5DX selective solder flying probe and wash.
- Experience working independently and ensuring timely and accurate communication with contract manufacturers suppliers and 3rd party test and failure analysis partners.
- 3 years of root cause analysis and process design experience
- Knowledge of project and product quality tools like Six Sigma or Lean operations
- 1 years of designing experiments and statistical analysis of results experience
- Experience with IPC-A-610H Class 3 IPC J-STD-001H compliance
- Experience in Polymeric application including conformal coating staking and underfill.
- Experience in solder alloys including leaded and lead free as well as next gen low temp alloys.
- Experience with flying probe test systems and DFT
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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.
As a Manufacturing Engineer for one or more Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBA) youll be directly responsible for bring engineering designs for complex electronic assemblies to reality. Youll work closely with the Design Engineering and Supplier Manufacturing teams to ensure new designs are optimized for manufacturing while driving improvements in yield cycle time and cost for existing hardware. Your expertise will be invaluable in bringing satellite hardware to life. Come solve the difficult and rewarding engineering challenges in developing a highly reliable power efficient performant low-cost satellite bus and payload.
You will work across design engineering supply-chain quality and our manufacturing partners to drive Amazon Leo electrical sub-system and PCBA manufacturing and delivery. You must have the ability to dive deep on the details to identify understand and solve difficult technical problems and also utilize a system level approach to prioritize issues for whole program. You use data to drive manufacturability reliability and quality objectives in design and development teams.
*Up to 50% Travel will be required for this role
Key job responsibilities
-Work with the Design Engineering team to provide PCB/PCBA DFM feedback. Identify and escalate PCBA manufacturing challenges early in product development.
-Drive the PCBA Manufacturing Qualification process at the CM. Define manufacturing readiness requirements and lead key milestone reviews to ensure all production readiness deliverables are complete.
-Investigate and develop new manufacturing technology and methodologies to enhance PCBA quality reliability throughput and cost.
-Drive closure of all operational issues during pre-production builds. Work within Operations Supply Chain R&D and Reliability Engineering to implement and optimize manufacturing processes and improve yields for production ramp.
-Investigate failures/defects in production test and integration. Identify and mitigate underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence as part of continuous improvement efforts.
-Identify opportunities for risk reduction and simplification of PCBA manufacturing processes.
-Deliver manufacturing processes capabilities including equipment capability quality controls materials characterization and standardized rework practices.
-Actively monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp. Provide regular status reports of PCBAs progress from design to production.
- 4 years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- 5 years of manufacturing process industrial engineering experience
- Experience with DFx (Design for cost test manufacturing)
- Experience working with fast-moving high-performance teams and driving innovative solutions tailored to unique business environments
- Experience in board assembly processes and equipment: Stencil paste print SPI pick & place SMT reflow AOI 5DX selective solder flying probe and wash.
- Experience working independently and ensuring timely and accurate communication with contract manufacturers suppliers and 3rd party test and failure analysis partners.
- 3 years of root cause analysis and process design experience
- Knowledge of project and product quality tools like Six Sigma or Lean operations
- 1 years of designing experiments and statistical analysis of results experience
- Experience with IPC-A-610H Class 3 IPC J-STD-001H compliance
- Experience in Polymeric application including conformal coating staking and underfill.
- Experience in solder alloys including leaded and lead free as well as next gen low temp alloys.
- Experience with flying probe test systems and DFT
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Bellevue - 117300.00 - 160000.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- CNC Programming
- Lean
- Machining
- Tooling
- CAD
- CNC
- Assembly Experience
- SolidWorks
- Kaizen
- Manufacturing
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