Lab Buildout & Test Ops Lead (RF/Network)

Amazon Inc.; Texas; On-site; USD 117,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo 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 across Austin, San Diego, and Seattle.

The ideal candidate combines lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, procurement, and vendor management with the ability to translate unclear lab requirements into executable build plans. Expect regular travel and cross‑site collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in lab operations, hardware development management, systems development, RF test, network operations, or infrastructure deployment.
• Experience building, operating, or maintaining engineering labs, RF labs, network labs, telecom labs, or hardware‑in‑the‑loop environments.
• Working knowledge of RF test environments, including chambers, antennas, RF cabling, attenuators, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, or channel emulators.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including switching, routing, VLANs, IP addressing, firewall rules, remote access, and lab network segmentation.
• Experience managing procurement, BOMs, vendors, delivery schedules, asset tracking, and equipment lifecycle.
• Ability to travel regularly between Austin, San Diego, and Seattle.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end lab buildout execution for RF and system‑integration environments across Austin, San Diego, and Seattle.
• Coordinate deployment of racks, benches, chambers, RF infrastructure, test equipment, control stations, 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.
• Travel regularly to Austin, San Diego, and Seattle to support lab buildouts, readiness reviews, vendor work, infrastructure deployment, and operational handoffs (20‑30% travel).
• Build repeatable lab standards so each site can be deployed and operated consistently while still supporting local engineering needs.

Skills

Lab operations

RF test infrastructure

Networking fundamentals

Procurement & vendor management

Systems deployment

Lab documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Windows lab hosts

Automation frameworks

Telemetry & logging tools

Inventory systems

Networking gear (Cisco/Arista/Juniper)

Job description

Amazon Leo 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 across Austin, San Diego, and Seattle.

The ideal candidate combines lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, procurement, and vendor management with the ability to translate unclear lab requirements into executable build plans. Expect regular travel and cross‑site collaboration.