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.
We are looking for an experienced Support Engineer with mechatronics and maintenance experience in technology development and manufacturing environments to help us develop and support the next generation of automated satellite test systems.
As a Project Kuiper Support Engineer you will participate in the development of test automation equipment, and control systems. You will own assembly and bring-up of mechanical systems, electrical enclosures and mechatronics equipment. You will work with engineering and maintenance teams to develop and maintain preventive maintenance plans and critical spare parts lists for engineering equipment, and will own the execution of preventive and corrective maintenance tasks on automated test systems. You will train production operations technicians on maintenance procedures and will ensure that their training keeps pace with improvements to production systems.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and execute preventive maintenance of mechanical, electrical and control system elements, including PLCs, sensors, actuators, electrical control panels, electronic devices, and mechanical, pneumatic, and GN2/LN2 systems.
- Troubleshoot and repair failed or faulty electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and GN2/LN2 systems and devices.
- Support electrical enclosure and automated test equipment design.
- Install, test, and validate new control system elements and devices.
- Write work instructions and provide recommendations for improved work definition.
- Support day to day operation of satellite environmental test chambers, carry out chamber operations, and back-up and train equipment operators and technicians as needed.
- Assemble mechanical components of automation equipment.
- Interpret electrical schematics and install wiring for low voltage electrical and electronic devices.
- Participate in design reviews of pre-release automation hardware.
- Follow ESD safe protocols when handling sensitive electronic hardware.
