RF Lab Buildout & Test Operations Lead

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 195,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a hands-on Lab Buildout and Operations Manager to own deployment, readiness, and sustained operation of RF, networking, and system-integration lab environments. The role spans Austin and Seattle, ensuring labs are built, instrumented, networked, documented, and operationally ready for engineering use.

The candidate will coordinate RF/test infrastructure, maintain readiness schedules, and partner with Facilities, Networking, Security,

Qualifications

• Experience in managing technical projects within lab environments.
• 7+ years in lab operations or related hardware development roles.
• Experience building, operating, or maintaining engineering labs including RF and network labs.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end lab buildout execution for RF and system-integration environments across Austin and Seattle.
• Coordinate deployment of racks, benches, chambers, RF infrastructure, test equipment, cabling, power, grounding, cooling, and secure lab network access.
• Drive readiness for RF test areas, integrated system test beds, hardware-in-the-loop environments, and production-representative lab setups.
• Partner with Facilities, Networking, Security, Hardware, RF, Software, and Test teams to ensure lab spaces are usable, safe, scalable, and operationally reliable.
• Maintain lab bring-up schedules, punch lists, dependency trackers, and operational readiness checklists.
• Support RF lab environments including chambers, antennas, attenuators, channel emulators, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, RF cabling, timing sources, and related instrumentation.
• Support lab network design and operations, including VLANs, routing, switching, firewall access, remote access, control-plane connectivity, and test-device isolation.
• Ensure lab infrastructure can support integration, regression, throughput, latency, mobility, handover, timing, and multi-device validation.
• Drive uptime and reliability improvements for lab systems, including monitoring, alerting, access control, inventory tracking, and failure-response processes.
• Standardize lab configurations, diagrams, runbooks, rack elevations, port maps, cable labels, and operational procedures across sites.

Skills

Project management

Lab operations

RF test

Network operations

Infrastructure deployment

Tools

Labs hardware

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a hands-on Lab Buildout and Operations Manager to own deployment, readiness, and sustained operation of RF, networking, and system-integration lab environments. The role spans Austin and Seattle, ensuring labs are built, instrumented, networked, documented, and operationally ready for engineering use.

The candidate will coordinate RF/test infrastructure, maintain readiness schedules, and partner with Facilities, Networking, Security,