Manufacturing Engineer - 2nd shift, Leo
Listed on 2026-07-04
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering, Systems Engineer
Manufacturing Engineer - 2nd shift, Amazon Leo
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
We’re looking for a Manufacturing Engineer on 2nd shift to lead production development.
Key Job Responsibilities- Conceptualize, design, develop, and improve production processes (assembly, integration, test processes) through collaboration/leadership of a team of manufacturing engineers.
- Serve as primary technical interface to development team, participating as the lead technical voice from the factory in Design Reviews, key technical escalations, and new product development activities.
- Support operations team directly by being a high solving power engineer, capable of bringing multiple diverging technical perspectives together in high‑pressure escalation moments such as quality containments.
- Own the capacity increase roadmap for production including defining the relevant capital equipment required for rate increase and helping to lead the design, procurement, install, and qualification of new rate‑enabling equipment.
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.
A Day In The Life- 25% – On the shop floor, working with production teams to implement new processes, review & solve key technical blockers in production, performing production development testing, etc.
- 25% – Independent development work such as deep diving on available data sets to identify and implement key production improvement actions, acting on quality escapes by developing and implementing new quality control measures, developing & executing to existing roadmaps for capacity increase, process simplification, etc.
- 40% – Meeting settings, collaborating with others on topics such as new design introductions, production process change management, production solution‑finding reviews, etc.
- 10% – Mentorship settings with other engineers on the team, performing collaborative work & coaching to develop the team members skillsets, while ensuring common team execution to your technical vision.
The Optical Inter‑Satellite Link Production team is a multi‑disciplinary organization responsible for all aspects of production of the key modules enabling satellite‑to‑satellite communication. The Manufacturing Engineering Team is the technical arm of this organization, with 20+ engineers from all disciplines collaborating on all aspects of technical development & execution in production. As a Lead Manufacturing Engineer, you will be the technical leader of a team of 4‑6 manufacturing engineers.
Qualifications- 2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent.
- Familiarity with Low‑Rate Manufacturing Environments & New Product Introduction.
- Knowledge of Lean manufacturing practices & principles.
- Experience with Root Cause Analysis Techniques such as Fishbone, Fault Tree, DMAIC, or related technologies/processes.
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP software.
- Experience with Statistical Analysis Software such as Minitab.
- Exceptional communication and writing skills.
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP software.
- Experience with Statistical Analysis Software such as Minitab.
- Exceptional communication and writing skills.
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