ASIC Sustaining Engineer, Amazon Leo

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 system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individualhouseholds 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.

The Amazon Leo Supply Chain team is looking for a ASIC Sustaining Engineering Manager Lead offshore sustain engineers by providing KPI technical training and motivation. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record building trust-based relationships while maintaining urgency and accountability. Experience working in new and ambiguous environments while solving complex problems with a broad range of cross functional stakeholders will also be an advantage.

Key job responsibilities
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Relationship Management
Partner with NPI and OSAT teams to establish clear work models ownership and expectations
Build trust-based relationships with OSAT while maintaining urgency and accountability
Collaborate with NPI engineers on test issue debugging while prioritizing production needs
Production Operations & Issue Management
Own and maintain ATE test programs for RF DBF ASICs at wafer sort (WS) and final test (FT)
Monitor production yield investigate yield excursions and drive root cause analysis
Analyze ATE data to identify test program issues limit escapes and GR&R guard-banding problems
Correlate ATE measurements with bench data to debug QA fails and identify test escapes
Implement test program improvements and validate fixes before production deployment
Support OSAT teams in resolving tester hardware load board and test program issues
Manage lot holds disposition decisions and safe launch activities for new product introduction
Manage SW/HW consignment to OSAT and respond to daily production issues (yield QA failures line downtime data issues logistics)
Quality & Yield Optimization
Proactively identify quality concerns from OSAT reports and site visits (repetitive failures abnormal behavior changes
Highlight yield improvement opportunities and drive continuous improvement initiatives
Monitor production metrics and alert stakeholders to deviations from target
Cost Reduction & Efficiency
Support NPI cost reduction campaigns (test time reduction multi-site testing hardware simplification)
Identify and eliminate cost adders redundant work and material waste
Improve throughput and resource utilization
Supplier Management & Scaling
Define capacity scaling criteria for OSAT partners
Evaluate and qualify new OSAT sources using defined metrics execution plans and correlation reports
Data & Analytics
Leverage internal production monitoring systems to query real-time yield data and consignment status across multiple OSAT site
Implement automated alerts using AI tools to notify stakeholders of missed targets


- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- 5 years of experience in semiconductor test engineering (ATE or bench) and or product engineering.
- Experience with ATE platforms such as Teradyne UltraFLEX Advantest or similar
- Proficiency in Python or similar scripting language for data analysis
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data analysis tools (Spotfire JMP Excel)
- Experience with RF and/or digital ATE

- Masters degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- Experience with bench setup automation
- Experience with RF bench equipment signal generators spectrum analyzers VNAs power meters
- Exposure to RF IC fundamentals mixers PLLs amplifiers filters beamforming concepts
- Experience with mm Wave or phased array / DBF / RFFE ASIC testing
- Experience with wafer sort and final test at OSAT facilities
- Exposure to RMA debug and failure analysis workflows

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Sunnyvale - 183000.00 - 247600.00 USD annually