Principal PMT, NTN Handsets, Amazon Leo

Key job responsibilities

• Drive User-Equipment (UE) feature alignment with 5G Handset vendors to ensure interoperability with Amazon Leo RAN, Core, Transport, and cloud infrastructure, including standards-compliant connectivity and roaming services between satellite and terrestrial networks.
• Own the NTN Handset product roadmap, UE Compliance, and Amazon Leo device technical acceptance (TA) execution plan, ensuring NTN Handset delivery across multiple workstreams with high standards and operational excellence.
• Work closely with Amazon Leo engineering teams, Payload Integration Test (PIT) and telco MNO/Device/Chipset partners to define, build and test 3GPP-compliant protocol layers, ensuring deterministic behavior, low latency, and high reliability for satellite-based connectivity and TN-NTN mobility.
• Lead by example with systems thinking to solve problems. Stay current with 3GPP releases, industry trends, and evolving NTN deployment models to guide long-term product strategy aligned to Amazon Leo’s roadmap.
• Write and present technical documents (6-pagers, PR/FAQs, BRDs, PRDs) to senior leadership.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering hardware, software, systems, operations, and program management teams across Amazon Leo.
• Be structured and flexible at the same time to learn as the business evolves. Provide visibility and communicate extremely well, with responsibility to provide updates to VPs, author operation plans, business review documents, and communicate to the broader Amazon Leo team.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience technical product management
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, or 7+ years of wireless communications systems and implementation experience
• 5+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering experience
• 10+ years of solving problems with technology in the Telecommunications industry experience
• 7+ years of wireless communications systems and implementation experience
• Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders
• Familiarity with Amazon's internal tools and processes
• In-depth knowledge and working experience with 5G device OS/networking software stack, troubleshooting, voice, emergency services and call flows including related protocols for cell acquisition, RACH, registration, mobility, and data session establishment.