RF Lab Buildout & Operations Lead

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign‑on incentives and RSUs

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a hands‑on Lab Buildout and Operations Manager to own the deployment, readiness, and sustained operation of RF, networking, and system‑integration lab environments. This role will drive buildouts across Austin, San Diego, and Seattle, ensuring labs are instrumented, documented, and ready for engineering use.

The ideal candidate brings lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, and procurement experience, with a proven ability to

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 create and maintain lab documentation, rack diagrams, port maps, build plans, readiness checklists, and operational runbooks.
• 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 support lab buildouts and readiness reviews across sites.

Skills

Lab operations

RF test infrastructure

Networking

Procurement

Vendor management

Documentation

Travel readiness

System integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a hands‑on Lab Buildout and Operations Manager to own the deployment, readiness, and sustained operation of RF, networking, and system‑integration lab environments. This role will drive buildouts across Austin, San Diego, and Seattle, ensuring labs are instrumented, documented, and ready for engineering use.

The ideal candidate brings lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, and procurement experience, with a proven ability to