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.

The Technical Program Manager for Kuiper will support the Kuiper Software & Networking Satellite labs team. They will own the schedules/plans to build and manage Satellite test beds and support deployments, ensuring high quality venue operation.

This is a highly technical role requiring experience with integrated hardware and software development as well as appreciation for complex applications. You will have significant influence over the design and the test approach we take to develop and test the system. Ensure the teams deliverables are on track, escalate when not trending to plan, manage lab MBRs, represent the team tasks in daily director standup meetings.

This position requires a program management background and direct experience developing relevant systems. You will create and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but will also roll up your sleeves and contribute directly. A TPM anticipates bottlenecks, uses great judgment to make trade-offs, and balances the business needs with technical constraints. Your ability to understand the big picture of the project design and anticipate and plan dependencies is crucial. Your ability to take large, complex projects, break them into manageable pieces, and deliver timely results is invaluable.


Key job responsibilities
You will work with a team of experts and drive the team to successfully accomplish the following activities:
- Develop and manage technical requirements for test, verification and harness of complex systems
- Decompose technical requirements for test into software and hardware requirements aligned with development, manufacturing and verification test strategy.
- Identify and manage the conduct of trade studies and analyses necessary to define automated test station hardware and software requirements.
- Identify and manage the development of automated test equipment test hardware and software.
- Manage a large number of dependencies across many engineering disciplines to ensure that development schedules are met.
- Develop program and team processes and tools, as required

You must be fully competent in a variety of project management tools, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project life-cycle and exhibit demonstrated proficiency in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality and risk management, reporting and metric development/tracking.

About the team
Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.