Manufacturing Engineering Manager Project Kuiper jobs at Amazon in United States, Redmond

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 a senior systems development engineer, you will work with a wide variety of functional groups and will be involved in the design and implementation of software systems for phased array antennas validation and test, as well as overall system integration:- Develop tools for characterizing antenna RF and system performance.
- Develop software and test rack automation to support production test stations.
- Support electrical and software bring-up, debug of new hardware.- Plan, develop and implement environmental test activities for phased array antennas.
- Implement DSP FPGA firmware to map high-level algorithms from Matlab or C to architecture-specific code.

- BS or MS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience with C/C++ and Python or other scripting languages. Experience automating, building, and testing systems
- Experience with HW/SW bring up and debugging
- Experience working in a hardware lab with oscilloscopes, signal generators, power supplies, and other test equipment

- Solid fundamental CS / EE skill set with hands-on industry or university experience in embedded software development
- Knowledge of FPGA systems, GPIO/I2C/SPI and peripheral interfacing.
- Experience with RTL and FPGA development tools
- Experience with Matlab or tools alike
- Knowledge of Database systems

In this role, you will serve as the Lab Operations Area Manager supporting the end-to-end implementation of Kuiper’s Lab Operations Strategy. Joining the Kuiper Workplace Operations (KWO) team and reporting into the Sr. Strategy & Implementation Manager, you will own tactical and strategic execution of lab intake, planning, coordination, and closeout processes, ensuring lab launches and upgrades follow consistent, repeatable workflows. Operating at the strategic level, you will execute the operational infrastructure behind the Lab Program, including intake tracking, change request governance, workback schedules, tooling integration, and process-failure investigations. Operating at the tactical level, you’ll be supporting daily operations and compliance within a designated lab site or zone. As the local “air traffic controller,” you will ensure the smooth and safe functioning of lab environments by coordinating layout or equipment changes, driving process updates, and enforcing safety and access protocols. You’ll be the first line of contact for lab users, supporting service requests and surfacing concerns to the central team.This role requires a detail-oriented, hands-on leader with strong communication and coordination skills, a bias for structure, and process rigor. You will partner closely with Design & Construction (D&C), Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Hardware Engineering, Kuiper Workplace Ops (KWO), Facilities Management (FM) and other stakeholders to ensure programmatic consistency across inflight lab projects. You’ll track assets and performance metrics, perform regular audits, lead key governance forums, ensure accurate safety and training documentation, and act as a critical link between your local lab environment and the centralized Lab Operations team.
Key job responsibilities
- Support KWO in the end-to-end lab lifecycle process: project intake → execution planning → progress tracking → closeout
- Support lab change request governance, documentation, and tracking mechanisms
- Serve as the first point of contact for lab support requests, intake submissions, and user questions
- Enforce safety protocols, access control, and training compliance within the lab environment
- Lead weekly Lab Ops meetings and feedback loops, gathering / reporting site-specific challenges and driving improvements
- Coordinate layout changes, equipment moves, site visits, and infrastructure upgrades in partnership with D&C and EHS
- Support planned and unplanned lab outages in partnership with FM and internal leadership; schedule flexibility is a must
- Conduct regular lab audits and track local lab metrics related to compliance, usage, and support needs
- Monitor asset condition and report issues or escalations for maintenance or replacement
- Ensure signage, safety plans, and lab records are accurate and up to date
- Proactively remain informed of inflight lab projects and workback schedules, escalating blockers as needed
- Serve as the central liaison for lab tooling, dashboarding, and asset tracking workstreams
- Support rollout and maintenance of Lab Operations Playbooks, training materials, and service catalogs
- Support cross-functional meetings (e.g., with D&C, EHS, IT), ensuring clear notes, follow-ups, and timely execution
- Monitor lab program health metrics and report regularly on progress, risks, and upcoming projects
- Drive continuous improvement of lab operations through process standardization and stakeholder feedback loops
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A day in the life
As a Lab Operations Area Manager, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day execution of lab program processes. You’ll interface with teams across Kuiper to intake new lab requests and support defining and executing solutions. You’ll lead the weekly intake board, document decisions and risks, and work to unblock inflight projects.As a Lab Ops SME, you’ll be the operational anchor for a high-velocity and agile workplace. You might start your day reviewing intake requests and performing a 5S audit. Mid-morning, you may coordinate a layout reconfiguration with the FM and IT teams, ensuring standards are met and signage is refreshed.

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems
- 5+ years of program or project management experience in facilities, labs, construction or engineering environments
- 5+ years of working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong understanding of lab safety protocols and regulatory requirements
- Experience managing complex project schedules and stakeholder coordination
- Experience defining or implementing repeatable operational processes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience documenting and reporting on program health

- PMP or similar project management certification
- Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing
- Knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL at the intermediate level
- Experience working with and managing third party vendors
- Experience managing lab builds, tech space renovations, or R&D operations
- Experience managing lab builds, tech space renovations, or R&D operations
- Familiarity with asset tracking tools, intake portals, or operational dashboards
- Experience supporting training or onboarding initiatives
- Knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL at the intermediate level
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and creating order through tooling or process
- Strong working knowledge of Excel or similar tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Airtable, project trackers)

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.We're looking for a Mechanical Engineer with a background in mechanical design of spacecraft components, precision testing equipment, tooling and fixtures. The role is within the propulsion team, and the ideal candidate has experience in mechanical spacecraft hardware from conception through flight qualification, with understanding of materials and processes, GD&T, and design to dynamic and thermal requirements. Favorable consideration given for experience developing components, assemblies, and mechanisms for operation in high-vacuum environments. Propulsion background is desired but not required, and the position offers opportunity for a strong candidate to join an exciting project in the field of spacecraft electric propulsion. This is a hands-on role for a highly collaborative individual that combines superb technical, and analytical capabilities to transition theoretical guidance and requirements into performant hardware optimized to be lightweight, cost effective and manufacturability.Key job responsibilities
* Mechanical design of propulsion subsystem, sub-systems and test-fixtures.
* Collaborating with the propulsion team to deliver low-mass and low-cost designs optimized for manufacturability in volume.
* Generate detailed designs and conduct/enable thermal modelling along with static, dynamic and modal structural analysis as needed.
* Support integration of designs into propulsion performance models.
* Tolerance analyses and verification of critical clearances for sub-system components.
* Preparation and documentation of materials for design review gates.
* Support and/or lead root cause and corrective action plans in result of manufacturing non-conformances.
* Contribute to the propulsion system development and maturation to high volume manufacturing by generating and maintaining procedures including: part/ component acceptance tests, assembly procedures and, qualification test plans.

- 4+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with prototyping and implementation
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent

- Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume
- 3+ years experience CAD software expertise (Siemens NX, SolidWorks, etc.)
- 1+ year experience with GD&T per ANSI Y14.5M
- Tooling design
- Flight hardware experience
- Stress analysis
- High volume manufacturing
- Knowledge of machining processes, design for manufacturing
- Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in structural or mechanical engineering or related discipline

The Role
This role is for a Software Engineer who will design, implement, and operate globally distributed systems that enable Kuiper to achieve low single-digit-second query responses within a near real-time analytics layer or lakehouse, and to support agentic AI capabilities on top. You’ll build these systems using the latest AWS technologies and best-in-industry software engineering practices.Export Control Requirement:
Key job responsibilities
- Architect and implement a scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lakehouse that unifies structured and unstructured data from disparate sources.
- Architect and implement a scalable, cost-performance-optimized OLAP-based analytics layer
- Establish metadata management with automated data classification and lineage tracking.
- Design and enforce standardized data ingestion patterns with built-in quality controls and validation gates.
- Architect a centralized metrics repository that becomes the source of truth for all Kuiper metrics.
- Implement robust data quality frameworks with staging-first policies and automated validation pipelines.
- Design extensible metrics schemas that support complex analytical queries while optimizing for AI retrieval patterns.
- Develop intelligent orchestration for metrics generation workflows with comprehensive audit trails.
- Lead the design of semantic data models that balance analytical performance with AI retrieval requirements.
- Implement cross-domain federated query capabilities with sophisticated query optimization techniques.- Design and implement hybrid search strategies combining dense vectors with sparse representations for optimal semantic retrieval.
A day in the life
This role is for a Software Development Engineer who will build new cloud services and APIs that facilitate and orchestrate the Kuiper AI Foundations—enabling intelligent software operation across Kuiper devices such as satellites, ground gateways, and customer terminals. You will design and deliver low-latency, highly scalable architectures that are critical to providing high-quality internet service and AI capabilities to customers.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

We are looking for experienced, passionate and curious engineering leaders to innovate with us on behalf of our customers. To be successful in this role, you should possess solid analytical, design and problem diagnosis skills. Expertise with Query Processing and Optimization and high-performance systems is a plus. You will lead multiple teams in designing, implementing, and owning high and low level system components to make Aurora Database highly available, scalable, reliable and fast. You should be comfortable hiring and building your team, mentoring junior engineers, and harmonize operational responsibilities with innovation. The ability to translate high-level technical requirements into executable project plans is essential. If this sounds like you, come join us help AWS continue to lead the cloud computing revolution.What is in it for you?· Gratification: You will know you are solving problems most software developers don’t yet know exist.
· Critical: Databases are cornerstones to many of our customers’ applications.
· Ownership: you will quickly become responsible for key components of the service.
· Learn: If want to learn about challenges of large-scale fault tolerant systems in practice – this is an opportunity of a life time.
· Innovate: We learn from our customers and invent every day.
· Make history: AWS is the leader in a current industry wide revolution.
· Have fun: Surround yourself with engineers that like to solve complex problems, but also work in a fun environment.
We recognize new team members need time to ramp-up and feel fully comfortable within the team. You will have a launch buddy, a manager who will help you navigate through this processes offering you help and mentorship.We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal life.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.About AWSWork/Life Balance
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Key job responsibilities
* Design, develop and maintain our iOS mobile applications
* Work with team members to investigate design approaches, prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility
* Be part of an agile development process to deliver high-quality software

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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 significant portion of the position focuses on developing and improving automated operational responses, including telemetry monitoring and flight data analysis. The engineer will be responsible for creating and reviewing new scripted operations procedures, enhancing existing automated sequences, and formulating responses to novel scenarios that arise. This work requires close collaboration with GNC and Propulsion design engineers (both hardware and software) to ensure all solutions align with established safety and operational parameters.Professional growth opportunities include potential cross-training in other GNC disciplines, such as attitude determination and control, and supporting the GNC's Flight Dynamics Operations team. This expansion of responsibilities helps ensure comprehensive understanding and support of constellation operations.Given that automated constellation operations run continuously throughout the year, this position requires flexibility in work scheduling. Initially, the role may involve standard working hours with rotating 24/7 on-call responsibilities. As the team expands, the schedule will evolve to cover morning, night, and day shifts across all days of the week, distributed among a team of operators. This scheduling structure ensures continuous coverage and support for the constellation's operational needs.
Key job responsibilities
Operations Engineering
- Serve as primary operational liaison between Propulsion Design Engineering and Kuiper flight operations stakeholders
- Execute defined propulsion operational responses
- Monitor and assess propulsion system health across the constellation
- Support investigation and troubleshooting of in-flight anomalies
- Escalate to responsible engineers for scenarios where existing automation or runbooks do not apply
- Document operational instructions and procedures for the benefit of other Propulsion operatorsAutomation & Software Development
- Develop and enhance operational procedures, both manual and automated
- Create and review scripted operations procedures (i.e. software development)
- Improve telemetry monitoring and flight data analysis capabilities
- Support continuous automation improvements for operational sequences
Risk Management & System Health
- Identify and assess operational risks- Apply and scale mechanisms to asses propulsion system health & maneuverability during all mission phases
- Contribute to improvements propulsion system concepts of operations (CONOPs)Schedule Availability Requirements
- Staff rotating shifts including early morning, late night, and weekends - on a rotating basis constrained by 40h shift assignments
- Respond to needs for 24/7 on-call support on a rotating basis

- Bachelor of Science degree (or equivalent skills/experience) in a relevant technical or engineering discipline (e.g. Mechanical engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Physics)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, or similar)
- Ability to work at computer workstations for extended periods
- Ability to respond to urgent on-call situations
- Ability to work flexible shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays
- 3+ years of relevant professional experience
- Experience with real-time system monitoring and anomaly response
- Demonstrated ability to execute technical procedures and follow operational protocols
- Experience with data analysis tools and software
- Experience with version control systems

- Experience in satellite operations
- Experience in ground systems development of satellite operations systems
- Experience in any of the operations roles in satellite navigation, conjunction risk assessment, and maneuver planning.
- Experience in cloud-based software systems development