Sr Site Technical Manager, 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 are seeking a Senior Site Technical Manager with a focus on Manufacturing Test Engineering to join our Customer Terminal Engineering organization. This high-impact role bridges site-level manufacturing leadership with hands-on test infrastructure ownership, spanning the full product lifecycle for Aviation antennas, from early prototype builds through mass production and sustaining. You will be embedded at contract manufacturer sites, driving the SMT manufacturing processes, final assembly, and test systems to support Customer Terminal manufacturing for our diverse set of Aviation customers.

Export Control Requirement:

This position may require access to information, technology, or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality, citizenship, and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior Site Technical Manager, you will be leading projects to ever-evolving customer needs for the continual development and innovation of Aviation Customer Terminals.

As an ideal candidate:

• SMT Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as the primary SMT process expert to the contract manufacturer, providing guidance on solder paste printing, component placement, reflow profiling, and inspection. Partner with the CM to dial in processes, troubleshoot yield-limiting defects, and ensure assembly quality meets CT performance standards.
• Test Coverage Document (TCD) Ownership: Own the TCD as the single source of truth bridging the engineering team and CM by defining what is tested, at which stage, and to what specification, ensuring full traceability from design requirements through factory test execution.
• Test Strategy & Automation: Define modular test strategies informed by the TCD. Develop, qualify, and execute test sequences using Test Stand, Kazam or other interfaces to maintain test integrity with GR&R, Cp/Cpk, and correlation analysis.
• Yield Improvement & Data Analytics: Lead yield attack initiatives analyzing first pass and final pass failures. Conduct DOEs to root-cause defects, feeding findings back into the TCD to continuously refine test coverage and limits.
• Design Feedback & CM Partnership: Drive DFM/DFA feedback to hardware and firmware teams with testability requirements captured in the TCD from early design phases. Lead cross-functional coordination across engineering, business development, operations, and the CM.

A day in the life

Every day brings new challenges to Leo. In the morning, you may be working on the technology roadmap for the next five years and in the afternoon diving deep on a technical issue delaying a build. The ability to set priorities using high value judgement is a must in the role as you will have independence on focus on what you deem is critical to the organization.

About the team

Amazon Leo is focused on providing broadband access to under served customers across the world. We are passionate about accomplishing this mission as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality or performance. We are constantly solving new problems and embrace people who thrive in a startup like environment and have an entrepreneurial mindset.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 6+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering
• Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
• Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test frameworks
• Experience in production factory Surface Mount Technology processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Experience programmatically testing products, measuring test coverage, developing the best automation, driving testability and diagnostic
• Master's degree in a related technical field

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually