Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
Product Design (PD) strives to constantly raise the bar on the customer experience. Product Design Engineers engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to conceive, design and bring to market innovative consumer products for the Amazon Leo program. Key responsibilities include mechanical part and assembly design, testing, evaluating, and down selection. These positions identify key design attributes, and work quickly and efficiently to converge on an electromechanical design for the system. They highlight concerning issues to leadership and provide recommendations on how to revolve them. The output of their work is the physical product. They know intimately the rationale and tradeoffs behind each and every detail of the design from material selection, a reinforcing rib, a molding gate, etc. They work with manufacturing partners early to scale their designs for high volume manufacturing while optimizing for cost, performance and challenging schedules. They have the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with PD team members, cross functional teams, and executives.
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.
Key job responsibilities
As the Manager of Customer Terminal Mechanical Design Team, you will build and lead a team of mechanical designer and support functions for Amazon Leo’s high volume, advanced customer terminals. In this highly visible lead role, you will utilize your design experience and intuition to lead the team to define and develop a new category of devices. You will guide your team in integration of electrical and mechanical components. The responsibilities include:
• Lead Architect / PD Technical Lead for an outdoor consumer electronics product.
• Work with cross functional team in assessing project/risk readiness for PD owned deliverables.
• Concise and accurate communication with PD members, cross functional teams, and executives.
• Independently able to change priorities based on high value judgements.
• Customer focused when solving ambiguous problems.
• Negotiate and collaborate with external teams to manage priorities and allocate PD resources effectively.
• Ability to create scalable solutions while solving tactical problems.
• Up to a total of 25% international and domestic travel may be required.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Engineering, or a related field
- Experience in engineering team management
- 7+ years of experience in consumer electronics products with the last several years as architect or technical lead designing IP66 outdoor rated electronics/telecommunications products.
- 5+ years of experience with 3D CAD modeling, tooling reviews and drawing release for production tooling.
- 5+ years of experience with designing for high volume manufacturing and assembly processes (should include multiple tools in several of: plastic injection / thermoforming, casting, sheet metal, machining, various finishing processes)
- 5+ years of experience designing Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), flexes and electrical interconnects
Job Tags
Permanent employment, Full time, Flexible hours,