Description
Project Kuiper 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.
We're looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join our Optical Head Assembly (OHA) production development team. As the Manufacturing Engineer for a Line Replaceable Unit at Project Kuiper, you will be directly responsible for the production process development, introduction, improvement, & maintenance of a key module on our next generation spacecraft, focusing on the assembly, integration, and test of electro-mechanical products. You'll be a key technical voice on a team of manufacturing engineers working on the product, solving challenging technical problems associated with delivering an ultra-high-performing OISL modules 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 will leverage your expertise in electro-mechanical systems manufacturing to partner with development teams on the design of future iterations of the OHA Assembly and our associated production test systems & tooling. 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.
Key job responsibilities
Conceptualize, design, develop, and improve production processes (assembly, integration, test processes) through collaboration with a team of manufacturing engineers & other functions
Serve as primary technical interface to development team for the Coarse Pointing Assembly sub-module, participating as the lead technical voice from the factory in Design Reviews, key technical escalations, and new product development activities.
Support operations team directly by being a high solving power engineer, capable of bringing multiple diverging technical perspectives together in high pressure escalation moments such as quality containments.
Own the capacity increase roadmap for production of the Coarse Pointing Assembly device, including defining the relevant capital equipment required for rate increase and helping to lead the design, procurement, install, and qualification of new rate enabling equipment.
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.
A day in the life
40% of your time will be spent on the shop floor, working with production teams to implement new processes, review & solve key technical blockers in production, performing production development testing, etc.
25% of time will be spent performing independent development work such as deep diving on available data sets to identify and implement key production improvement actions, acting on quality escapes by developing and implementing new quality control measures, developing & executing to existing roadmaps for capacity increase, process simplification, etc.
25% of time will be spent in meeting settings, collaborating with others on topics such as new design introductions, production process change management, production solution finding reviews, etc.
About the team
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 20+ engineers from all disciplines collaborating on all aspects of technical development & execution in production.
Basic Qualifications
4+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
Experience with Space Flight Hardware Environmental Testing (SMC-16 or similar)
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of SolidWorks simulation or Ansys Finite Element analysis tools
Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $105,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
