Lab Manager, Avionics Engineering Operations, Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is Amazon"s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

To deliver on that mission, Amazon is looking for talented candidates who are intellectually curious, have solved complex problems, and have a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively.

In this role, you'll join Amazon Leo"s Avionics Development team as a Lab Engineer. This is a operations facing position focused on avionics lab equipment design, management, build-out, operation, and maintenance. As a hands-on lab manager, you will innovate, design, and deploy the building infrastructure and equipment systems that let satellite hardware development teams scale and operate efficiently. You will be the single threaded owner for facilities requirements, build-out, and execution. You will work hard, have fun, and make history!

This Lab Engineer will require familiarity and expertise on how modern hardware laboratories are designed and operated. There are not many historical references for how to build satellite hardware laboratories that truly scale at the volumes of Amazon Leo"s vision. An ideal candidate can draw inspiration from consumer electronics, battery, automotive, or other high tech industries to build the facility that builds the satellite hardware.

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

• Coordinate with building designers, architects, and construction firms to design new (or retrofit existing) lab facilities
• Collaborate with different satellite hardware development teams to collect facility and equipment requirements
• Select, procure, and deploy complex pilot plant and test equipment needed to develop, build, and test state-of-the-art satellite avionics.
• Create standard operating procedures to operate, maintain, and upgrade complex systems that develop, qualify, and validate satellite hardware prototypes
• Draft narratives to decision makers and create operational reports tracking key-performance-indicators
• Liaise with suppliers, contractors, and vendors that contribute to the hardware development life cycle

About the team

You will be a member of the Satellite Avionics Development team working within the wider Electrical Engineering organization. This highly collaborative group of hardware and software engineers has a diverse range of backgrounds and knowledge. We are looking for someone to support and own facilities operations. Our labs enable prototypes that will validate hardware and software systems for next generation satellites. We tackle problems that span a variety of domains and everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment.