Lead Satellite Test Operations Engineer, Amazon Leo

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.

As a Lead Satellite Test Operations Engineer within Amazon Leo, you will report directly to the Satellite Manufacturing Test Engineering Manager. You will be a hands-on leader for the Test Operations Engineering team, responsible for delivering results against the Value Stream"s KPIs for satellite test and managing the team that tests complex satellite systems at scale. You will work with supervisors, technicians, schedulers, and production coordinators who are directly responsible for production output to deliver results and continuously iterate on production test processes. Safety and product quality are paramount. As Leo"s production system scales, your responsibilities will include stabilizing the work content while leading process improvement efforts to increase production output.

Key job responsibilities

• Champion Amazon's Leadership Principles to drive a culture of ownership, accountability, teamwork, and working hard while having fun.
• Create a culture of safety and quality through active engagement and leadership of the satellite test workforce.
• Establish strong working relationships with design engineering, quality, EH&S, and supply chain teams.
• Drive operational excellence with a combination of data analytics and Lean operations.
• Manage, if necessary, the personnel responsible for frontline test support, triage, and debug
• Use knowledge and experience in understanding, collaborating, and trading complex inputs from multiple other disciplines (Electrical, RF, Thermal, Dynamics, Mechanisms, Materials, Tooling, Assembly, and Test) to guide the manufacturing team through satellite test

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

The Satellite Test Operations Engineer will serve as a test operations leader across multiple shifts in Leo"s full rate production facility. They will lead the Satellite Test Operations Team in identifying production bottlenecks, resolving test blockers, conducting thorough root-cause investigations, and implementing process improvements. The successful candidate has extensive operations experience and a thorough understanding of aerospace/space hardware manufacturing processes. They will own the daily operating rhythm of the satellite test operations team, unblocking and escalating issues with satellite test. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position working with leaders in multiple technology areas. You'll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you'll be constantly looking for ways to improve your product's performance, quality and cost. This is a leadership role for a highly collaborative individual that combines superb technical and analytical capabilities to optimize precision manufacturing procedures.