RF Lab Buildout & Operations Lead

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 117,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon 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 role will coordinate lab buildouts, instrument networks, and ensure labs are documented and operational for engineering use.

The ideal candidate will have strong lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, procurement, vendor management, and hands-on systems experience,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years in lab operations, hardware development management, systems development, RF test, network operations, or infrastructure deployment.
• Experience building, operating, or maintaining engineering labs (RF, network, or hardware-in-the-loop).
• Working knowledge of RF test environments and networking fundamentals.
• 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.
• 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.
• Own procurement tracking for lab equipment, RF components, network gear, racks, cables, tools, fixtures, chambers, and facility-dependent infrastructure.
• Translate technical needs into BOMs, purchase requests, vendor quotes, lead-time tracking, and delivery schedules.
• Manage vendor coordination for chamber deployment, electrical work, cooling, RF infrastructure, installation labor, and equipment calibration.
• Track CapEx/Opex needs, delivery risks, dependencies, and site constraints; elevate issues early with clear options and impact.
• Maintain asset inventory and lifecycle tracking for lab hardware, instruments, network devices, and shared test infrastructure.
• Travel regularly to Austin, San Diego, and Seattle to support lab buildouts, readiness reviews, vendor work, infrastructure deployment, and operational handoffs.
• Act as the on-site execution lead during critical lab moves, new building bring-up, chamber installations, RF infrastructure deployment, and major test-bed readiness efforts.
• 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

Documentation

Cross-team collaboration

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

Tools

RF test equipment

Chambers

Lab networking gear

Job description

Amazon 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 role will coordinate lab buildouts, instrument networks, and ensure labs are documented and operational for engineering use.

The ideal candidate will have strong lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, procurement, vendor management, and hands-on systems experience,