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.

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 Project Kuiper 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.

Key job responsibilities
- Work with the Design Engineering team to provide PCB/PCBA DFM feedback. Identify and escalate PCBA manufacturing challenges early in product development.
- Drive the PCBA Manufacturing Qualification process at the CM. Define manufacturing readiness requirements and lead key milestone reviews to ensure all production readiness deliverables are complete.
- Investigate and develop new manufacturing technology and methodologies to enhance PCBA quality, reliability, throughput, and cost.
- Drive closure of all operational issues during pre-production builds. Work within Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, and Reliability Engineering to implement and optimize manufacturing processes and improve yields for production ramp.
- Investigate failures/defects in production, test, and integration. Identify and mitigate underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence as part of continuous improvement efforts.
- Identify opportunities for risk reduction and simplification of PCBA manufacturing processes.
- Deliver manufacturing processes capabilities including equipment capability, quality controls, materials characterization, and standardized rework practices.
- Actively monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp. Provide regular status reports of PCBAs progress from design to production.
- Deploy and qualify polymerics (staking, underfill, and conformal coat) equipment for high volume production.

About the team
The Design and Manufacturing Engineering team develops, designs, and delivers all electrical sub-systems and PCBA designs for the Kuiper satellite avionic systems, communication systems, ground stations, and customer terminals. This is an inclusive, inter-disciplinary team that is committed to performance, quality, & reliability. Your breadth of exposure will be immense as you collaborate with other core groups, guiding the hardware from design to production and operation.