Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC
Sr. Systems Development Engineer, OISL Test Automation, OISL Sustaining Engineer
Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC, Redmond, Washington, United States
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.
We're looking for a hands-on Systems Engineer with a background in the requirements management, design for manufacturing, hardware/software development for hardware test.
This is a role for a highly collaborative individual who will help us with optimizing for high volume production and meeting cross discipline requirements.
Lead the development test system validation
* Lead software/hardware integration testing
* Lead innovative software/firmware/hardware architectures and flows for multiple manufacturing test lines
* Lead review and analysis on data using tools such as MATLAB, Python, or similar.
* Support and organize the release of the software and hardware system documents through gate reviews
* Investigate and troubleshoot yield issues during prototype and production builds
* Design and develop software/scripting test setups and supporting hardware for various subsystem validation of the satellite bus.
* Identify and analyze the cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale.
* Drive cross-functional schedules, test requirements, specifications and limits with the hardware development team
* Support production and integration efforts for hardware subsystems.
* Define test strategy, implement and optimize test setup/processes at the CM including design and qualification of test fixtures, test equipment, and test software
* Develop procedures, preventative maintenance plans, and troubleshooting guides to support production
* Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans in support of program learning, technical risk reduction, verification, and validation
S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
The Optical Inter-Satellite Link Production team is a multi-disciplinary organization responsible for all aspects of production of the key modules enabling satellite-to-satellite communication. This role is part of Sustaining Engineering Team that we are building to support OISL manufacturing as we scale production. This is the technical arm of this organization, with 20+ engineers from all disciplines collaborating on all aspects of technical development & execution in production.
Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- 5+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
- MS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science, or equivalent experience
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