Satellite Test Manager, Integrated Vehicle Test

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.

The ideal candidate will have experience in execution of tests for complex systems with a proven background in implementing hardware and software tooling for test and manufacturing operations.

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
- Build, lead and manage a diverse team of engineers focused on the execution of integrated satellite tests for development and manufacturing environments.
- Provide technical guidance for the team in addressing projects with broad scope and limited definition to ensure test and design objectives are met.
- Drive troubleshooting efforts of new failure modes encountered during manufacturing test without a clear path forward, isolating between hardware and software defects, driving root cause analysis and risk decisions.
- Define team growth expectations and organization strategy.
- Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure team and project success.
- Develop innovative hardware, software and processes to optimize and improve test execution capabilities and processes.
- Provide technical leadership for integration campaigns and collaborate with responsible engineers, manufacturing engineers, software developers and tooling teams to deliver a thoroughly tested spacecraft ready for launch.
- 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.
- Apply critical thinking in complex situations, ambiguous environments and challenging timelines.
- Conduct cause of error analysis and drive issue resolutions to improve team and process performance.

A day in the life
As a leader of the Integrated Vehicle Test team, you will lead and engage an experienced cross-disciplinary team to implement and execute test campaigns for fully integrated satellites. As a manager of the team you will play a crucial role in ensuring Leo's readiness for manufacturing and launch through detailed and efficient test operations. You will work closely with internal engineering and manufacturing teams across ground and space systems to help define test infrastructure and processes for development and manufacturing test environments as well as troubleshoot complex issues encountered during manufacturing test. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.


About the team
The Integrated Vehicle Test team is responsible for development and execution of test plans to ensure reliable operation of satellite vehicles in space. The team’s responsibilities include process development, test hardware development and test execution for qualification vehicles and improving and scaling processes for production cadence. 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.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience in managing system or software development teams
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields
- 5+ years of integration, testing and automation experience
- 2+ years of team leadership experience
- 5+ years of experience in design and validation of hardware/software systems.
- 5+ years of experience in a development environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- Experience developing test strategies and plans for complex hardware/software systems or systems of systems
- 5+ years of root cause analysis and troubleshooting or problem solving experience
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience with integration and testing of satellite hardware.
- 5+ years of experience in a development environment.
- 5+ years experience developing and executing test plans for complex aerospace, automotive or consumer electronics systems.
- Experience as a technical lead, leading small groups of engineers through product development or