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Posted date: May 09, 2025
Location: Kirkland, WA
Estimated salary: $119,550
Range: $73,900 - $165,200
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.This role is for a highly dynamic and motivated individual that will work with manufacturing engineers to construct instructions and processes for technicians performing solar operations. To be successful in this role you will need to define, procure, setup, and maintain build and test support equipment. You will partner with fixture and harnessing teams to ensure component standardization across the program. You will create the foundational production system standards and processes needed to achieve rate production.
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a point of support for solar build and test equipment and processes
- Create solar array hardware build and test procedures for technicians (standard operating procedures) and unblock issues arising during build and test operations
- Establish and increase the efficiency of build and test test processes to maximize output and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to rate production
- Identify improvement opportunities and execute initiatives to maintain safe operations, ensure product quality, reduce lead time and increase productivity
- Troubleshoot and identify ultimate root cause of issues in build and test processes and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence
- Establish production processes for 5S, FOD control, tool management, calibration procedures and visual management of production tooling and equipment
- Enable production autonomy by challenging requirements, simplifying work procedures, and automating actions
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.
Qualifications
- 2+ years in a Space/Aerospace/Military/Automotive hardware testing environment- 1+ years hands-on aerospace build and test experience
- 1+ years of project management of technical projects
- Demonstrated ability to interpret mechanical drawings and work instructions
Extended Qualifications
- 4+ years in a Space/Aerospace/Military/Automotive hardware build and test environment- Associate's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace engineering, or equivalent
- Previous work in one or more of the following disciplines; Structural loads and dynamics, thermal, or manufacturing engineering.
- Familiarity with basic machining operations (manual mill, lathe, etc.)
- Experience developing hardware building and testing procedures.
- Basic automation experiences (python or similar)
- Environmental test equipment operation experience
- Understanding of data acquisition systems and instrumentation selection
- Experience developing processes and tooling
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with ability to effectively communicate with multiple teams.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multitask, comfortable with changing work environments and priorities.
- Experience commissioning and troubleshooting build and test equipment.
- Demonstrated ability to scale production rate capability.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $73,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $165,200/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.
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