Amazon Senior PCBA Manufacturing Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

184994499

Key job responsibilities
• Work with the Design Engineering team to identify and escalate manufacturing challenges early in product development by enforcing DFM, DFA and DFT principles
• Define manufacturing readiness requirements and lead key milestone reviews to ensure all stakeholder deliverables are complete to enable operational excellence and efficiency.
• Investigate and develop new manufacturing technology and methodologies to enhance product quality, reliability, and performance.
• Drive closure of all operational issues during pre-production builds. Work within Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering to implement and optimize manufacturing yields for production ramp.
• Investigate failures in production, test, and integration. Identify and mitigate underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence and foster continuous improvement.
• Lead the development and deployment of polymerics, rework, and advanced soldering processes.
• Conduct regular build quality reviews to ensure that design intent is achieved. Identify opportunities for risk reduction, simplification, and manufacturing process improvements.
• Deliver manufacturing processes capabilities including equipment capability, quality controls, materials characterization, and workmanship standards
• Actively monitor the success of products and processes through production ramp. Provide regular status reports of PCBAs progress from design to production.
• Contain suspect or known non-conforming materials and assemblies. Provide direction to contract manufacturing, suppliers, and engineers to manage quarantine and rework activities.Export Control Requirement:A day in the life
Come solve the difficult and rewarding engineering challenges in developing a highly reliable, power efficient, performant, low-cost satellite bus and payload. As a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, you will work across design engineering, supply-chain, quality, and our manufacturing partners to drive Project Kuiper electrical sub-system and PCBA manufacturing and delivery. You must have the ability to dive deep on the details to identify, understand and solve difficult technical problems and also utilize a system level approach to prioritize issues for whole program. You use data to drive manufacturability, reliability, and quality objectives in design and development teams.
Redmond, WA, USA

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Manufacturing/Mechanical/Aerospace/Industrial/Electrical) or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in PCBA/PCB supply chain, manufacturing, or engineering.
- Experience in board assembly process and equipment (for example: Stencil print, SPI, pick & place, reflow, AOI, ICT, x-ray inspection).
- Experience leading DFX reviews to deliver design manufacturability, testability, quality, and reliability.

- Master’s Degree in Engineering (Manufacturing/Mechanical/Aerospace/Industrial/Electrical) or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in PCBA/PCB supply chain, manufacturing or engineering.
- 5+ years’ experience with industry standard PLM and DFX systems, Mentor/Valor preferred.
- Experience performing Design and Process Failure Modes and Effects Analyses.
- Experience with IPC standards for PCB, PCBA, and RFPC fabrication, assembly, and test.
- Experience in Polymeric application, including conformal coating, staking and underfill.
- Experience in solder alloys including leaded and lead free as well as next gen low temp alloys.
- Experience with flying probe test systems and DFT
- Knowledge of quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, root cause analysis and corrective action, advanced product quality planning (APQP), metrology, process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), control plans, and various problem-solving approaches.
- Experience providing hands-on experimental design and execution (Statistical analysis and DOE).
- Experience working independently and ensuring timely and accurate communication with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and 3rd party test and failure analysis partners.
- Ability to lead small teams in root-causing technical product manufacturability and process problems and drive implementation of solutions.
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for the team’s spirit of innovation and mission of improving manufacturability, quality, and reliability in cutting-edge technology.