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DESCRIPTION

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.

As a Project Kuiper Satellite Test Hardware Development Manager, you will lead and engage an experienced cross-disciplinary team to develop, implement and maintain the hardware systems that enable engineering and manufacturing teams to test Kuiper satellites at scale. You will define roadmaps, provide technical guidance, prioritize deliverables, and allocate resources to deliver innovative test solutions for qualification and production use cases. You will deliver solutions encompassing environmental, robotics, mechanical, electrical, radio-frequency, and vision systems.

You will work with engineering teams across ground and space systems, to deliver integral solutions to test fully assembled spacecraft and ensure readiness for launch operations. The ideal candidate will have experience in hardware development and integration of complex systems with a proven background in commissioning and functional validation of end products.


Key job responsibilities
- Lead and manage a diverse team of engineers focused on the development of hardware for integrated vehicle test venues.
- Provide technical guidance for the team in addressing projects with broad scope and limited definition to ensure test and design objectives are met.
- Develop innovative integrated test systems comprehensive of hardware to optimize and improve test execution capabilities and processes.
- Define team growth expectations and organization strategy.
- Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure team and project success.
- Communicate fluidly across a variety of teams to identify product risks and how they will be addressed to ensure mission success.
- Juggle multiple priorities while optimizing the system and schedule.
- Conduct cause of error analysis and drive issue resolutions to improve team and process performance.

About the team
The Integrated Vehicle Test team is responsible for delivering functional spacecraft to orbit to ensure Kuiper’s mission success. We do so through development of advanced test systems and execution of test campaigns that help guarantee reliable operation of satellite vehicles in space. The tasks and daily focus change rapidly, and you will often take on exciting new responsibilities to ensure project success. Expect to be deployed to address complex problems by identifying the scope of the issue and quickly establishing innovative and functional solutions.