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.

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.

The Leo team is looking for a Lead Harness Quality Engineer who will lead a team of harness quality engineers to define requirements and deploy processes to deliver aerospace quality at unprecedented scale. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with excellent analytical abilities, strong technical skills, effective written and verbal communication, and most importantly, a passion for design quality assurance to produce high-quality, mission-critical harnesses in volume production.

Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the design quality assurance of electrical harnesses (including harness components and hardware, connectors, backshells, cable and wire) for power distribution, grounding, RF, communication and high-speed data signal.
- Electrical Integrity Ownership: Lead analysis and mitigation strategies for signal degradation, transient susceptibility, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in test harnesses, flight harnesses and test systems.
- Partner with design engineering, reliability engineering and test engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle to influence harness design and interconnects to ensure electrical signal integrity.
- Serve as the go-to owner for root cause analysis (RCA) of harness anomalies.
- Own and lead Leo quality management activities for all harnesses including requirements definition, part qualification, production process validation, receiving/source inspection, CAPA, metrics reporting, and continuous improvement
- Guide product development teams on supplier selection, assessment, audit and development decisions
- Partner cross-functionally to define Leo Quality System in compliance with AS9100 & IS09001
- Scale supplier processes and quality systems to reduce defects with increasing volumes
- Be a subject matter expert in the disciplines of vendor process management and quality control
- Lead external audit teams
- Influence supplier selections and engineering design decisions to factor sustainable quality
- Influence supplier investments to reduce risk and improve quality of components
- Establish and monitor supplier mechanisms for verifying production processes remain in control
- Analyze and improve supplier quality metrics
- Represent Leo Supplier Quality in cross-functional initiatives
- Travel as needed to accomplish program objectives

A day in the life
- Participates in product development teams as owner of supplier quality system requirements
- Acts with internal customer obsession on behalf of Leo production by reducing defect rates and driving root cause analysis
- Builds and enforces implementation of the Leo Quality System
- Serves as the face of Leo Quality for suppliers communicating expectations, reviewing methods and resolving issues
- Facilitates component quality control as subject matter expert in partnership with receiving and inspection teams
- Owns development and automation of business processes impacting quality
- Splits time between Amazon facilities and visiting supplier operations

About the team
The Leo Supplier Quality team is driven to develop a vendor base capable of scaling aerospace quality to new volume and cost levels in order to meet end customer needs. This position will join the team at an exciting moment with the opportunity to own quality for key categories and contribute to the design of requirements and systems used across the business. We value data driven decision making, a comfort with ambiguity across multiple simultaneous projects, an ability to earn the trust of our key stakeholders, and delivering results without sacrificing integrity.

Lead Harness Quality Engineer, Amazon Leo