CNC Machinist, Amazon Leo

Amazon 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Setup and operation of turning centers and mill turn machines
• Setup 3 axis machining centers
• Perform in process part inspection using micrometers, calipers, height gages and on machine probing.
• Provide feedback to programmers and management for process improvements
• Make necessary adjustments to offsets and maintain part quality throughout the run.
• Intermediate knowledge of tool holders, cutting tools, boring bars, fixtures, inserts and other accessories used on various machines.
• Experience with a variety of materials (aluminum, stainless steels, titanium and nickel based alloys)
• Experience proving out first article NC programs

A day in the life

The CNC Machinist will work closely with programmers, engineers, and machining shop management to outline, develop, and optimize new machining and manufacturing processes. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in setting up and machining tight-tolerance aerospace components for satellite production hardware. The desired candidate will have experience in a fast-paced machining environment supporting both high-volume production builds and rapid-iteration prototype development, with the ability to respond quickly to shifting priorities, engineering change orders, and urgent requests from production and prototype teams.

About the team

The Amazon Leo machine shop provides development fabrication capabilities as well as production machining. These operations occur in our Redmond facilities.

We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast paced, start-up like environment. To be successful you need to be highly motivated and detail oriented while showing the highest standards of execution.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious and earn trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth"s most customer-centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space based systems design and wireless systems.