Amazon System Reliability Availability Maintainability 

United States, California, Los Angeles 

428565699

The Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) Engineer will proactively drive the design for reliability, availability, and maintainability of Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) systems. This role is responsible for developing and leading the RAM process and delivering on RAM objectives across both space-based and terrestrial applications. This role will require collaborating closely with system-level and subsystem teams, providing technical inputs and guidance on designs, and supporting detailed analysis and test capabilities.As a member of the KGS Engineering Integrated Engineering Solutions (IES) organization, the candidate will have experience developing and implementing both analytical and empirical approaches for mission assurance, product quality, reliability risk identification and assessment, and availability and maintainability analysis during product design, manufacturing, integration, testing, deployment, and mission operation stages. The individual should be able to drive KGS system and product requirements in executing stress driven risk analysis, including thermal, electrical and mechanical stresses in order to identify overstress, and fatigue-related product weaknesses. This individual is capable of evaluating not only product design quality/reliability risks, but also has the skillset and experiences to assess electronics manufacturing process related quality/reliability issues. The candidate is also able to provide system level mission impacts with mitigation approaches to support CONOPS or devise alternative approaches to meet performance objectives.At the component level, the candidate will drive critical component identification, vendor selection, and qualification requirements. The candidate is expected to use knowledge of process capabilities for printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) and Electrical, Electronic and Electro-mechanical (EEE) component production as well as system-level performance requirements to establish critical quality and reliability metrics.
Key job responsibilities
• Act as the subject matter expert for reliability, availability, and maintainability analysis and test for Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) system and subsystem designs
• Develop system level RAM models and establish RAM allocations across space vehicle subsystems and terrestrial products to meet RAM requirements
• Specify and develop end-to-end RAM models and analysis results to support validation of performance against customer and/or partner requirements
• Review, guide, support subsystem teams FMECAs, predictive modeling techniques, and test plans
• Establish test capabilities, and failure analysis as needed
• Create RAM validation test plans and implement specific validation items including resource allocations, validation schedule assumptions, and validation items scope
• Analyze test data and engage with others in KGS, customers, suppliers, or partners to evaluate the product reliability and provide proactive feedback on mitigation approaches
• Report RAM validation execution progress and issues, and track the issues from creation to closure
• Cooperate with cross-functional teams and other test engineers on debugging, failure analysis, and resolution of issues observed during test
• Evaluate and develop RAM validation test methodologies to reduce test time and increase test coverage
• Support second source qualification and factory escalations in RAM validation
• Work with OEM’s and leverage OEM resources for research
• Qualify components manufactured by suppliers and/or 3rd party partnersAbout the team
Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) Engineering is a multi-disciplinary technology team established to rapidly address the needs of targeted customers with specific solutions that have the potential to scale. These solutions are tailored to meet the needs of government and international customers for both space-based and terrestrial applications. The Integrated Engineering Solutions organization under KGS Engineering plays a vital role in the entire life cycle of the development of an engineering solution, including architecture development, requirements and interface definition through assembly, integration, and test (AI&T). verification, and post-delivery and operational support.Northridge, CA, USA

- • Bachelor's Degree or above in engineering, physics or related fields, or equivalent experience
- • 5+ years of experience with state of art PCBAs and electronics component packaging
- • 3+ years of experience with failure analysis activities and root cause analysis
- • 3+ years of experience with accelerated life testing (ALT, ESS, HALT/HASS)
- • 3 year’s minimum experience in reliability or hardware test for electronic products
- • Good understanding of the principles and basic structures of measuring instruments such as HALT, chambers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters, etc.
- • Strong technical problem-solving skills and experience with failure analysis techniques
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
- • Good ability in multi-task and handling a large number of tasks at once
- • Experience with SATCOM payloads or systems in space and/or on the ground, aerospace, or related industry

- • Master’s Degree or PhD in engineering, physics, computer science, or similar field
- • High sense of ownership, urgency, and drive; resourceful, and able to deliver results with minimal direction
- • Excellent oral and written communication skills
- • Strong team work spirit, team leader preferred
- • Experience with failure analysis techniques to isolate failure for any issues
- • Have reliability knowledge, statistical knowledge and be able to use reliability and statistical method to do data analysis, provide product risk assessment and life forecast.
- • Experience in development, integration, and commissioning of satellite communication systems
- • Broad knowledge and experience in the application and utilization of standards such as SMC-S-013, MIL-STD-785B, and guidance such as MIL-HDBK-217
- • Broad knowledge and experience in multiple disciplines related to satellite or space systems, including design, integration, test, operation, maintenance, and configuration/data management
- • Familiarity with software development and hardware integration related to satellite payloads or ground systems
- • Experience supporting system engineering of space and/or ground systems development efforts including meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals.
- • Demonstrated experience working with government agencies
- • US Security Clearance