Amazon Senior Mechanical Engineer Solar Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

373697368

This role is for a highly innovative and dynamic individual with the ability to design the highest power, lowest cost per watt, and lowest mass solar module flown in space! In this role, you will be responsible for the design definition, analysis, and test methodology to verify and demonstrate that the solar module will meet the end of life power requirements for the satellite constellation. You will apply research, your creativity, and experience to develop a solar module that meets the satellite reliability goals. You will be able to trade the design space ranging from power output, mass, cost, manufacturability, reliability, and degradation factors. This is a hands-on role and requires a self-starter with extensive skills in materials selection and solar cell packaging. You will be expected to defend your design decisions through technical design reviews and demonstrate the products produce-ability and performance through the full product development life cycle.Key job responsibilities
- Design and improve upon the solar modules used on the Kuiper Satellites. This includes aspects related to test, reliability, and material selection to optimize degradation factors and manufacturability.
- Identify and analyze requirements in support of trade studies and the solar modules interfaces to the solar array assembly.
- Create, iterate, and own detailed CAD models of the solar module design options - Including drawings, process requirements, models, and the identification of critical characteristics.
- Analyze (classical / FEA) and respond to all load conditions (static, dynamic, thermal, fatigue) for compliance.
- Build development sample solar modules as path finders for further process and design improvements.
- Develop test plans throughout development with variable isolation DOEs and statistical analysis for long term reliability assessments as needed.
- Define qualification plans and identify acceptance testing methods at volume production.
- Facilitate cost trades on multiple parallel configurations for cost/manufacturability vs design uncertainty.
- Produce complete design packages – detailed drawings, analysis reports, BOMs, Assembly documentation, test reports.Export Control Requirement:

- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Materials Science, or equivalent.
- 10 years minimum work experience as a mechanical engineer.
- 2 years minimum work experience on Solar Modules, Solar Cells, or Solar Arrays.
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Proficiency with CAD (Computer Aided Design) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems.
- Experience defining and writing requirements and test plans for complex systems.