Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper Quality Assurance Position

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. The Kuiper Manufacturing Quality team is driven to develop a Kuiper Quality System that is capable of scaling aerospace quality to volume and cost levels to meet end customer needs. This position will join the team at an exciting moment, with an opportunity to own quality system development and contribute to the design of requirements, processes, and systems used across the business. 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.
• Participate in Material Review Board discussions in Amazon's Finished Satellite Payload Processing facility, determining product dispositions for nonconforming material.
• 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.
• Work directly with Receiving Inspection, Supplier Quality, and Engineering teams to develop and qualify inspection, monitoring, and verification methods for the Kuiper Production System.
• 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.

About the Team

The Kuiper Manufacturing Quality team is driven to deliver high-quality product lines while maintaining a fast production rate. This position will join the team at an exciting moment, with an opportunity to directly own the quality outputs of some of our critical sub-systems.