Sr Technical Program Manager, Satellite Production Test, Project Kuiper
Company : Amazon
Location : Bellevue, WA, 98009
Posted Date : 28 October 2025
Job Type : Other
Category : Project Management
Occupation : Program Manager
Job Details
Project Kuiper Satellite Production Test Sr Technical Program 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.
This role will be instrumental in scaling our satellite production and test operations through process improvements, test automation, and operational excellence initiatives. You will drive the implementation of efficient test strategies that maintain aerospace quality standards while enabling high-volume production. To deliver these complex solutions, you will partner with peers across all Kuiper teams, including hardware, software, manufacturing, quality, and test engineering. Candidate superpowers should include ownership, insist on high standards, continuous improvement, stakeholder management, innovation, creating clarity out of ambiguity, and enabling productive collaboration.
Key Job Responsibilities
The Sr Technical Program Manager for Satellite Production Test role is fundamental to Kuiper's production scaling objectives. You will:
- Lead the development and implementation of scalable test strategies across environmental, functional, and integration testing
- Drive test automation initiatives to improve throughput while maintaining quality standards
- Establish and manage efficient software change control and deployment processes for test systems
- Lead game days to ensure robustness of test operations during system updates and changes
- Partner with engineering teams to optimize test sequences and reduce cycle time
- Implement data-driven approaches to identify and resolve bottlenecks in the test process
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the production test environment
- Manage cross-functional projects to improve satellite integration, testing, and provisioning processes
- Create and maintain metrics to track test effectiveness, efficiency, and production readiness
A Day In The Life
This role will be highly collaborative, requiring partnerships with cross-functional leaders to drive positive results. You will:
- Work with test engineering teams to scale automated test capabilities
- Partner with manufacturing teams to optimize test flows and improve production rate
- Collaborate with software teams to implement robust test system updates
- Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve overall production efficiency
- Drive resolution of complex technical and operational challenges
- Manage stakeholder relationships across engineering, operations, and leadership teams
About The Team
The Operations Command Center (OCC) team is the Kuiper Production Operations Integrated program management function that enables successful production scaling. The vision of OCC team is to enable success of end-to-end Kuiper operations team by proactively developing systems, processes, mechanisms, and tools that are required to detect issues, expose root cause, validate improvements, maintain controls, and drive operational rhythms.
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