Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

We're looking for an outstanding Senior Hardware Development Engineer with a background in the design, analysis, and manufacturing of precision optical systems.

The ideal candidate has end to end experience from performing design, DFM/DFA, tolerance analysis to production bring-up with suppliers for optical systems/ products.


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.


Key job responsibilities
* Use knowledge and experience in understanding, collaborating, and trading complex inputs from multiple other disciplines (Electrical, Optics, Thermal, Mechanisms, Materials, Manufacturing, Assembly, and Test) to guide the team and arrive at a viable technical approach for an optical system.
* Generate detailed designs with CAD assemblies/components and drawings as deliverables.
* Coordinate with other engineers, manufacturing and assembly to ensure design intent and cost effectiveness of production are achieved
* Documentation and presentation of materials for technical design reviews.
* Design and support test campaigns, both development and qualification/acceptance, for space hardware

A day in the life
You will take a hands on approach to tackle challenging, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that haven't been solved at scale before.