As a Senior Component Engineer you will see the big picture and drive reviewing / improving / maintaining our Component Engineering methods, processes and procedures, as well as training and mentoring other Kuiper Component Engineers. You will also deep dive in to technical problems, involving Electronic Component research, Component Selection and working with cross functional teams to validate AVL component candidates. You will support design challenges, manufacturing issues and look around corners to support next gen products. Your contributions will help ensure Component Engineering is a Center of Excellence at Kuiper.

Key job responsibilities
This position spans a breadth and depth of responsibilities, including but not limited to:

• Providing Technical guidance and support to Engineering, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing as a Subject Matter Expert
• Creating / reviewing / improving / maintaining our Component Engineering methods, processes and procedures
• Reviewing Electrical Component Requests to assure they meet Requirements; owning Electrical Component Lifecycle Management
• Conducting and Reviewing component research on equivalent components to expand our AVL
• Supporting release processes, ensuring end-2-end BOM Quality from CAD to Manufacturing
• Performing and reviewing BOM scrubs
• Managing Component Failure Analysis and Corrective Actions with suppliers.

Our 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.

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.


A day in the life
Why you will love it: You will have exposure to teams and leaders across Kuiper. You will be a part of leading edge product development teams. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to drive efficiency, excellence and capabilities into our methods and tools, improving the product development experience for our design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and supply chain partners. You will have ownership and responsibility for defining and executing processes that deliver both savings and productivity for Amazon.

About the team
Why this Role Matters: Amazon is transitioning from a successful deployment of our test satellites, to a full build-out (made in our custom-built factory) of our Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of 3236 satellites. This represents an audacious challenge to all Kuiper teams, and, a fantastic opportunity for Component Engineering to play a key role in our project success. Come join us in a high profile, high impact role to help us meet this challenge!