Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

As the leader of Kuiper’s Silicon Test Engineering team, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and scale innovative semiconductor product manufacturing solutions. You will work closely with internal inter-disciplinary teams and third-party suppliers to drive key aspects of reliability, quality and test system definition, design, and deployment. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.


Key job responsibilities
- Build and lead a silicon manufacturing team consisting of Digital, RF, and SERDES test experts.
- Collaborate with silicon design and engineering partners to ensure that quality, reliability, and testability are properly considering during the design phase.
- Specify bench and production test plans for chips, and review measurement results.
- Drive interactions with suppliers such as foundries and OSATs to complete engineering programs for wafer test, final test, qualification, and burn-in.
- Design and Implement test systems comprising test program, loadboards, probecards, etc.
- Actively identify test related readiness issues, and optimizations throughout the product lifecycle and work towards expedient resolutions.
- Define and implement best practices for hardware / software design cycles and revision control.
- Own the optimization, standardization, and improvement of test methodologies to enhance operational efficiency in production, ensure product quality, and minimize cost.
- Recruit, coach, and develop organizational talent to build on our existing team of test engineering professionals.
- Work with business and legal teams to write SoWs for supplier contracts, and negotiate supplier contracts.