RF Lab Buildout & Operations Lead - Multi-Site

Amazon; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The ideal candidate combines lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, procurement, vendor management, and hands‑on

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.
• Support RF lab environments including chambers, antennas, attenuators, channel emulators, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, RF cabling, timing sources, and related instrumentation.
• Travel to sites for lab moves, deployments, and handoffs; build repeatable lab standards for consistent deployment.

Skills

Lab operations

RF test infrastructure

Networking

Procurement

Vendor management

Facilities coordination

System integration

Documentation

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Windows

Lab test controllers

Automation frameworks

Telemetry/logging tools

Job description

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

The ideal candidate combines lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, procurement, vendor management, and hands‑on