Amazon Manufacturing Quality Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Kirkland 

275464028

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
- Develop and support Kuiper Quality management activities, including process definition and validation for assembly and test methods, part and process qualification, receiving inspection plans, in-process inspection capabilities, and process monitoring capabilities.- Support the development and launch of multiple aspects of the Quality Management System across Project Kuiper.
- Dive deep into root cause corrective action activities for the production processes immediately before Project Kuiper satellites are loaded in the launch vehicle.- Be a subject matter expert in manufacturing quality assurance for the Kuiper Production System.A day in the life
- Performs daily defect resolution as the Quality member.
- Investigates Production System issues to reduce defect rates and drive root cause corrective actions.
- Implements the Kuiper Quality System through process development and launch mechanisms.
- Partners with cross-functional groups to develop and qualify internal production processes, including Quality Assurance processes.
- Conducts rigorous Continuous Improvement activities to prevent recurrence of non-conformances during assembly.
- Performs audit activities to ensure compliance to QMS requirements.
- Develops and modifies process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, MSAs, and other APQP artifacts to support continued high quality production.
- Working within an AS9100 (or similar) certified quality system.

- 2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent

- 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 with hardware/software integration and real-time systems