Manager, Manufacturing Engineering - PCBA, Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places 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.

As a Manager of Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering for Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBA), you"ll lead a team of engineers directly responsible for bringing engineering designs for complex electronic assemblies to reality. Your team will work closely with Design Engineering and cross-functional partners across Electronics Supply Chain, including Commercial, Operations, and Test Engineering, to ensure new designs are optimized for manufacturing while driving improvements in yield, cycle time, and cost for existing hardware. You"ll develop and mentor your engineers, set technical direction, and remove barriers so your team can bring satellite hardware to life at scale.

Come solve the difficult and rewarding engineering challenges in developing a highly reliable, power efficient, performant, low-cost satellite bus and payload. As a Sr. PCBA Manufacturing Engineer, you will work across design engineering, supply-chain, quality, and our manufacturing partners to drive Amazon Leo electrical sub-system and PCBA manufacturing and delivery.

You must have the ability to dive deep on the details to identify, understand and solve difficult technical problems and also utilize a system level approach to prioritize issues for whole program. You use data to drive manufacturability, reliability, and quality objectives in design and development teams.

• Up to 20% Travel will be required for this role

Key job responsibilities

• Lead your team"s engagement with Design Engineering on PCB/PCBA DFM feedback and early escalation of manufacturing challenges.
• Own the PCBA Manufacturing Qualification process at the CM, including readiness requirements, team assignments, and milestone reviews.
• Drive adoption of new manufacturing technology to improve PCBA quality, reliability, throughput, and cost.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts across Operations, Commercial, Test Engineering, and Reliability Engineering to resolve pre-production issues and improve yields for production ramp.
• Oversee failure and defect investigations, holding the team accountable for root cause identification and corrective action.
• Prioritize opportunities for risk reduction and process simplification across your PCBA portfolio.
• Ensure delivery of manufacturing process capabilities including equipment qualification, quality controls, materials characterization, and standardized rework practices.
• Monitor program health and team performance through production ramp; provide status reporting and escalate risks to leadership.
• Direct deployment and qualification of polymerics (staking, underfill, conformal coat) equipment for high volume production.