Amazon Manager Satellite RF Hardware Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

834408452

As the lead, you will own the successful delivery of the satellite RF Hardware such as TTNC and GNSS solution into the overall Kuiper program. Consequently, you will work with senior management and program management to plan, schedule, and execute delivery of various subsystems. This position requires a technical understanding of RF concepts, mixed signal designs, and FPGA workflows. Must be able to work effectively cross-functionally with multiple disciplines.In this role you will:
- Drive hardware designs forward and ensure successful release.- Identify issues and gaps and drive them to closure.
- Provide clear and concise reporting to upper management.
- Organize, plan, and execute hardware bring-up and DVT campaigns.
- Lead hardware and software integration efforts.
- Derive RF HW specifications for the RF system and RF blocks
- Evaluate systems and directs design modifications.
- Be responsible for generating, reviewing and implementing engineering change orders.
- Troubleshoot and repairs circuits and fixtures.
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Key job responsibilities
- Will work cross-functionally on collaboration to fluently engage with diverse engineering disciplines, effectively advocate for RF system requirements, and ensure alignment for overall system success.
- Assist in the design of modem hardware, and Ka-Band circuitry
- Develop Microwave and millimeter wave RF hardware requirements and end to and system test plans.
- Works closely with the production test team to define test fixture requirements that identifies any manufacturing circuit error.
- Develop, designs, and test of high-power RF/microwave components, subsystems and systems.
- Derive RF HW specifications for the RF system and RF blocks
- Performs root cause analysis on products, technical problems, processes and documentation.
- Assess feasibility of various designs in support of architectural definition
- Deriving top-level specifications for RF links and RF and antenna subsystems
- Participate in subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification, and signal characterization
- Evaluate and characterize prototypes and RF components
- Support manufacturing engineers on production testing of RF avionics components and systems
- Coordinates schedule and cost forecasting with the project Manager and Program Manager.
- Directs design engineering personnel in the design and development.
- Evaluates systems and directs design modifications.
- Responsible for generating, reviewing and implementing engineering change orders.
- Troubleshoots and repairs circuits and fixtures.

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, or related discipline, or 7+ years of equivalent relevant experience
- 3+ years of managing teams
- Experience coordinating amongst diverse disciplines (software, production, reliability) to drive full-lifecycle system development
- Experience with RF/ microwave design expertise in Power, Low Noise and Driver Amplifier design for commercial and military communications receivers, transmitters and sub-systems up to 50 GHz.
- Experience with analog, digital and mixed mode circuit design and layout.
- Ability to plan, direct, and manage project work.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Excellent math aptitude, written and communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Master's degree or PhD in electrical engineering and 10 years of industry experience in RF/microwave circuits or communication theory
• Management experience of a team of RF/microwave engineers
• Experience performing analysis and simulation of communication systems including link budgets
• Thorough understanding of RF passive and active components and circuitry
• Knowledge of digital communication systems, spread spectrum, single and multi-carrier techniques, modulation types such as PSK, APSK, QAM
• Understanding of electromagnetic propagation and antenna systems
• RF/microwave design using ADS, HFSS, AWR Microwave Office
• Experience with the design and integration of RF systems consisting of radio transmitters and receivers, LNAs, PAs, couplers, filters, etc.
• Experience with RF test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers
• Experience mentoring engineers in engineering best-practices and domain-specific technical principles
• Comfortable communicating deeply technical topics to a wide variety of audiences
• Ability to lead projects across departments, create and maintain project schedules, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Technical leadership skills and communication skills, ability to create clarity across technical stakeholder and customer teams.
• Working knowledge of space environments and the process to space qualify a communication flight unit.