Senior Component Engineer, Kuiper
Description For Senior Component Engineer, Kuiper
As a Senior Component Engineer at Amazon Kuiper, you will play a crucial role in reviewing, improving, and maintaining Component Engineering methods, processes, and procedures. You'll also mentor other Kuiper Component Engineers. Your responsibilities include deep diving into technical problems, conducting electronic component research, component selection, and working with cross-functional teams to validate AVL component candidates. You'll support design challenges, manufacturing issues, and look ahead to support next-gen products.
Key responsibilities: • Provide technical guidance and support to Engineering, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing as a Subject Matter Expert • Create, review, improve, and maintain Component Engineering methods, processes, and procedures • Review Electrical Component Requests and own Electrical Component Lifecycle Management • Conduct and review component research on equivalent components to expand the AVL • Support release processes, ensuring end-to-end BOM Quality from CAD to Manufacturing • Perform and review BOM scrubs • Manage Component Failure Analysis and Corrective Actions with suppliers
The ideal candidate is a highly autonomous thinker, both creative and process-oriented, with strong communication skills, team leadership experience, and a successful track record as an experienced component engineer.
Why you'll love it: • Exposure to teams and leaders across Kuiper • Part of leading-edge product development teams • Direct impact on the bottom line and ability to drive efficiency, excellence, and capabilities • Ownership and responsibility for defining and executing processes that deliver savings and productivity
This role is crucial as Amazon transitions from test satellite deployment to a full build-out of their Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of 3236 satellites. It's a high-profile, high-impact role that will help meet this audacious challenge.
Note: Due to export control laws, candidates must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Responsibilities For Senior Component Engineer, Kuiper
- Review, improve, and maintain Component Engineering methods, processes, and procedures
- Train and mentor other Kuiper Component Engineers
- Conduct electronic component research and selection
- Work with cross-functional teams to validate AVL component candidates
- Support design challenges and manufacturing issues
- Provide technical guidance to Engineering, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing
- Review Electrical Component Requests
- Own Electrical Component Lifecycle Management
- Support release processes, ensuring BOM Quality from CAD to Manufacturing
- Perform and review BOM scrubs
- Manage Component Failure Analysis and Corrective Actions with suppliers
Requirements For Senior Component Engineer, Kuiper
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
- 15+ years working as a Component Engineer in space, aerospace, or other high-tech industry
- Experience working for, or closely with, an IC manufacturer
- Understanding of fab processes, assembly processes, design processes, materials, and associated QA and REL issues common to Silicon ICs
- Experience in electrical component selection, derating, contract manufacturers (PCBA)
- Experience creating qualification plans and obsolescence analyses
- Experience in component reliability, failure analysis or Destructive Physical Analysis
- Experience in collaborating with the ECAD/physical board designers
- Experience with PLM tools, MSOffice and other desktop tools
- U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, or lawful admission as a refugee or granted asylum (due to export control laws)
