Sr. Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper Quality Assurance Manager

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. 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.

The Kuiper Payload Processing 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.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Develop and lead 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.
• Lead Material Review Board discussions in Amazon's Finished Satellite Payload Processing facility, determining product dispositions for nonconforming material.
• Lead 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 launch vehicle payload processing quality assurance for the Kuiper Production System.

A day in the life includes:

• Perform daily defect resolution as the Quality member.
• Investigate Production System issues to reduce defect rates and drive root cause corrective actions.
• Implement the Kuiper Quality System through process development and launch mechanisms.
• Partner with cross-functional groups to develop and qualify internal production processes, including Quality Assurance processes.
• Conduct rigorous Continuous Improvement activities to prevent recurrence of non-conformances during assembly.
• Perform audit activities to ensure compliance to QMS requirements.
• Develop and modify 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.

Additional requirements include:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Passport and must meet customs entry requirements to include but not limited to: Yellow Fever vaccine and other immunization requirements as recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Must be able to pass Kennedy Space Center background checks.
• Willing to travel to French Guiana for 45 calendar days per year.

About the team:

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.