Liaison Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo seeks a Liaison Engineer to join the Structural Integrity and Analysis team on the shop floor, collaborating with Manufacturing and Quality to disposition non-conformances for Leo satellites.

The role requires MRB experience, a strong balance of engineering judgment and rigorous analysis, and a background in aerospace structures. Shift: 1st, Wed-Sat, 6am-4:30pm in Kirkland, WA.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of mechanical engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a Liaison Engineer / MRB role with aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures.
• Bachelor's degree or above in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Review and disposition non-conformance events across Leo operations: procurement, storage, handling, manufacturing, assembly, testing, transportation, final integration, launch and orbital operations.
• Develop standard repairs, rework procedures, propose DFM improvements, and create new work instructions.
• Conduct root cause investigations and develop corrective actions.
• Document static, dynamic and fatigue stress analyses when needed to support dispositions.
• Develop analysis methods to address common non-conformances.
• Work with Quality, Manufacturing, and Engineering experts to provide root cause failure analyses.

Skills

MRB experience

Liaison Engineer

Mechanical engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in engineering

Tools

Siemens Teamcenter

NX

NX Nastran

Job description

**Note: This position will work 1st shift, Wednesday-Saturday 6am - 4:30pm, 4 days a week**

Amazon 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.

To deliver on that mission, Amazon is looking for talented candidates who combine superb technical, research and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively.

In this role, you'll join Leo's Structural Integrity and Analysis team as a Liaison Engineer to innovate and solve engineering issues that arise during Leo production operations leading to every flight of our constellation of satellites. You will be working on the shop floor along side Manufacturing and Quality teams to develop engineering dispositions related to non-conformances. You will work hard, have fun, and make history!

This Liaison Engineer must have Material Review Board (MRB) experience in aerospace programs, and must be able to understand the balance between engineering judgment versus analysis rigor and when each is appropriate.

Key job responsibilities

• Review and disposition non-conformance events of the spacecraft and its ground support equipment that may occur in all phases of the Leo operations: procurement, storage, handling, manufacturing, assembly, testing, transportation, final integration, launch and orbital operations
• Develop standard repairs, rework procedures, propose design for manufacturing (DFM) improvements, improved processes and work instructions
• Conduct root cause investigations and develop corrective actions
• Document static, dynamic and fatigue stress analyses when needed to support dispositions, interpreting established structural analysis reports
• Develop analysis methods to address common non-conformances
• Work with Quality, Manufacturing, and Engineering experts to provide root cause failure analyses
• Interact with internal customers, external customers, and suppliers

A day in the life

This Liaison/MRB Engineer will be providing engineering support to resolve engineering issues that arise during manufacturing and assembly processes, quality inspection and acceptance tests, through the application of engineering and design principles, consulting the engineering development teams as needed.

About the team

The Liaison Engineering team is part of the Leo Structural Integrity and Analysis teams (Structural Analysis, Loads and Dynamics, Materials and Processes and Reliability) that is ultimately responsible for Integrity of not only the spacecraft but all other commodities supporting the program, inside and outside of the Mechanical Engineering group.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
• Bachelor's degree or above in engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in a Liaison Engineer / Material Review Board (MRB) role with aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume
• Strong fundamentals in engineering fundamentals (statics, dynamics, modal, frequency response, random vibration, sine and acoustic analyses/tests)
• Experience with fatigue and fracture analyses
• Knowledge of or experience with spacecraft technology and related primary, secondary and tertiary structures
• Familiarity with Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
• Strong understanding or Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Strong understanding of ANSI Y14.5M-1994 (drawing interpretation)
• Experience with Siemens Products (Teamcenter, NX, NX Nastran)

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