Production Quality Engineer - Split Shift, Amazon Leo

About the Role

Join the Amazon Leo team as a Production Quality Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of critical satellite sub-systems. Amazon Leo aims to provide reliable internet connectivity to underserved areas, and your work will directly impact the success of this mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead as Product QE for satellite mechanism assemblies, including process definition, validation, part and process qualification, inspection plans, and process monitoring.
• Guide Material Review Board (MRB) discussions to determine dispositions for nonconforming materials.
• Drive defect reduction activities for mechanism subassemblies, implementing innovative solutions to prevent defect recurrence.
• Collaborate with Inspection, Supplier Quality, and Engineering teams to develop and qualify inspection, monitoring, and verification methods for the Leo Production System.
• Act as a Quality Subject Matter Expert (SME) for mechanism sub-assemblies, owning defect reduction, reporting, and overall quality performance.
• Lead the development of new process mechanisms for cross-functional production system teams.
• Perform daily defect resolution, investigate production system issues, and drive root cause corrective actions.
• Implement the Amazon Leo Quality System through process development and launch mechanisms.
• Conduct Continuous Improvement activities to prevent non-conformances during assembly.
• Perform audit activities to ensure compliance with QMS requirements.
• Develop and modify process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, MSAs, and other APQP artifacts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures.
• 4+ years of experience in leading containment activities.
• 4+ years of experience in leading APQP (PFMEA, CP, PFD, SPC, MSA).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams on product design from concept to production.
• Experience with project management of technical projects.
• 4+ years of experience performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for functional test failures in PCBA or mechanical systems.
• 4+ years of experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab).
• 4+ years of experience in semi-automated and fully automated process improvement using systems like Keyence, Cognex, or other AI/ML Vision systems.

Schedule

Split Shift: 4x10 schedule, Sunday to Wednesday (Day) and Wednesday to Saturday (Day)

Pay

USA, WA, Kirkland - $117,300.00 - $160,000.00 USD annually

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.