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Posted date: Jun 23, 2025
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Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $182,650
Range: $133,900 - $231,400
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.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.
This role will be focused on increasing Kuiper Satellite production rate through vehicle integration, testing and provisioning process improvements in the shape of test systems software automation, change control and operational excellence initiatives. To deliver these complex solutions, you will partner with peers across all Kuiper teams, including hardware, software, manufacturing, quality, launch, test etc. Candidate superpowers should include ownership, insist on high standards, continuous improvement, stakeholder management, innovation, creating clarity out of ambiguity, and enabling productive collaboration.
Key job responsibilities
The Sr Technical Program Manager for Vehicle Test and Software Integration role is key to Kuiper's ability to increase satellite production rate. Aerospace testing standards are traditionally very complex and resource intensive, testing our vehicle at rate is a challenge that requires to navigate high technical complexity with an operational excellence mindset. Change in firmware and/or test system software is also necessity for Kuiper to continuously improve our satellite function, expand test coverage during production and increase test execution automation. In your role, you will partner across multiple engineering teams responsible for developing test systems and sequences. You will create and manage a lean software change control and deployment process, drive test system automation projects and lead game days to ensure availability of test systems is uninterrupted throughout the evolution of Kuiper production test systems design. Your experience in software and hardware development will help you create efficient mechanisms allowing many engineering teams to improve vehicle integration, testing and provisioning.
A day in the life
This role will be highly collaborative, requiring partnerships with cross-functional leaders to drive positive results. This role requires ability to advocate on behalf of our customers (internal and external) and an ability to push back without being adversarial.
You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that haven't been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you will learn a lot, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.
About the team
The Operations Command Center (OCC) team is the Kuiper Production Operations Integrated program management function that enables successful production scaling. The vision of OCC team is to enable success of end-to-end Kuiper operations team by proactively developing systems, processes, mechanisms, and tools that are required to detect issues, expose root cause, validate improvements, maintain controls, and drive operational rhythms.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Experience owning cross-functional program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership (up to VP level)
- Experience with software change control and CI/CD pipelines
- 3+ years experience in aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, operations management or equivalent
- Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all engineering disciplines.
Extended Qualifications
- 8+ years of technical product or program management experience- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Masters degree in engineering (aerospace, aviation, computer science, electrical, electronics)
- Experience in test engineering and/or working in aerospace or aviation industry
- Experience running game days in preparation for large deployments
- High sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Experience leading an operational team or organization (manufacturing, fulfillment) to increase throughput and/or drive operational excellence
- Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all engineering disciplines.
- High sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals.
- Experience owning cross-functional program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership (up to VP level)
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/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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