Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the satellite network 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.
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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.
To deliver on that mission Amazon is looking for talented candidates who are intellectually curious have solved complex problems and have a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively.
In this role youll join Amazon Leos Avionics Development team as a Lab Engineer. This is a operations facing position focused on avionics lab equipment design management build-out operation and maintenance. As a hands-on lab manager you will innovate design and deploy the building infrastructure and equipment systems that let satellite hardware development teams scale and operate efficiently. You will be the single threaded owner for facilities requirements build-out and execution. You will work hard have fun and make history!
This Lab Engineer will require familiarity and expertise on how modern hardware laboratories are designed and operated. There are not many historical references for how to build satellite hardware laboratories that truly scale at the volumes of Amazon Leos vision. An ideal candidate can draw inspiration from consumer electronics battery automotive or other high tech industries to build the facility that builds the satellite hardware.
Key job responsibilities
- Coordinate with building designers architects and construction firms to design new (or retrofit existing) lab facilities
- Collaborate with different satellite hardware development teams to collect facility and equipment requirements
- Operate maintain and upgrade complex equipment systems that develop qualify and validate satellite hardware prototypes
- Create standard operating procedures draft narratives to decision makers and create operational reports tracking key-performance-indicators
- Liaise with suppliers contractors and vendors that contribute to the hardware development life cycle
About the team
You will be a member of the Satellite Avionics Development team working within the wider Electrical Engineering organization. This highly collaborative group of hardware and software engineers has a diverse range of backgrounds and knowledge. We are looking for someone to support and own facilities operations. Our labs enable prototypes that will validate hardware and software systems for next generation satellites. We tackle problems that span a variety of domains and everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment.
- 2 years of hardware development test lab space/aerospace maintenance or hands-on engineering environment experience
- Knowledge of engineering documentation electrical diagrams and standard operating procedures
- Experience developing operational processes and technologies
- Experience in manufacturing process or industrial engineering
- Experience with design & innovation and research & development
- 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 developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience in creating process improvement procedures
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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 Redmond - 99400.00 - 160000.00 USD annually