Launch Quality Engineer: 2nd Shift, AMZ Leo Quality Assurance

Leo 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.

The Leo Payload Processing Quality team is driven to develop a Leo Quality System that is capable of scaling aerospace quality to volume and cost levels to meet end customer needs. This position will join the team at an exciting moment, with an opportunity to own quality system development and contribute to the design of requirements, processes, and systems used across the business.

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
Develop and lead Leo Quality management activities, including process definition and validation for assembly and test methods, part and process qualification, receiving inspection plans, in-process inspection capabilities, and process monitoring capabilities.
Contribute to Material Review Board discussions in Amazon's Finished Satellite Payload Processing facility, determining product dispositions for nonconforming material.
Lead the development and launch of multiple aspects of the Quality Management System across Leo.
Dive deep into root cause corrective action activities for the production processes immediately before Leo satellites are loaded in the launch vehicle.
Work directly with Receiving Inspection, Supplier Quality, and Engineering teams to develop and qualify inspection, monitoring, and verification methods for the Leo Production System.
Be a subject matter expert in launch vehicle payload processing quality assurance for the Leo Production System.

A day in the life
Perform daily defect resolution as the Quality engineer.
Investigate Production System issues to reduce defect rates and drive root cause corrective actions
Implements the Leo Quality System through process development and launch mechanisms.
Partners with cross-functional groups to develop and qualify internal production processes, including Quality Assurance processes
Conduct rigorous Continuous Improvement activities to prevent recurrence of non-conformances during assembly.
Perform audit activities to ensure compliance to QMS requirements.Develop and modify process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, MSAs, and other APQP artifacts to support continued high quality production.