Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer , Leo

Overview

Leo 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 Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and compliance of critical electronics components sourced from a global supplier base. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with excellent analytical abilities, technical skills, effective written and verbal communication, and most importantly, a passion for developing a global supply base to produce high‑quality, mission‑critical hardware in volume production.

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 SQE leads supplier qualification, audits, process controls, failure analysis, and continuous improvement to ensure robust, repeatable, and compliant manufacturing at all tiers of the supply chain.
• Define and scale Leo’s quality system to ensure early detection of process excursions, improving product reliability and wafer component yields in volume manufacturing.
• Lead root‑cause analysis for supplier and internal related defects including test failures and device‑level failures; oversee screening and qualification flows (burn‑in, thermal cycling, solderability, SEM/EDS, x‑Ray, and other advanced failure investigation and qualification techniques).
• Ability to influence suppliers and drive performance improvements.
• Own systems, tools, and business processes used to manage device traceability and key quality/test metrics.
• Represent Leo Supplier Quality in cross‑functional initiatives.
• Travel as needed to accomplish program objectives.
• AS9100D Lead Auditor Trained/Certified.
• Direct experience deploying JEDEC/IPC/APQP/PPAP methodologies per AS9145 or equivalent standards.

• Collaborate with product development teams as owner of component quality system requirements.
• Act with internal customer obsession on behalf of Leo Production by improving reliability, reducing defect rates, and driving failure analysis.
• Serve as the face of quality for component suppliers, communicating expectations and resolving issues.
• Facilitate component quality as subject matter expert in supplier qualification, device traceability, and statistical process control.
• Lead resolution of quality events utilizing structured failure analysis tools.

The Leo Supplier Quality team is driven to develop a vendor base capable of scaling aerospace quality to new volume and cost levels in order to meet end customer needs. This position will join the team at an exciting moment with the opportunity to own quality for key categories and contribute to the design of requirements and systems used across the business.

We value data‑driven decision making, a comfort with ambiguity across multiple simultaneous projects, an ability to earn the trust of our key stakeholders, and delivering results without sacrificing integrity.

• 5+ years of experience with analog, digital, and high‑speed circuit design.
• 5+ years of experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures.
• Background in aerospace, satellite hardware, or telecom infrastructure.
• Knowledge of plating process, die/package assembly, bonding and contamination control processes both at the device and PCBA level.

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Working knowledge of IEEE standards applicable to electrical components and interconnect.

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.