Supply Chain Engineer — Hardware Scale & Quality

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

Job summary

Amazon Prime Air is seeking a highly capable Supply Chain Engineer to own supplier performance across quality, cost, and schedule within hardware development and operation teams in Seattle. You will partner with design, sourcing, and manufacturing to ensure production targets and scale are met while enabling new product introductions.

You will develop and maintain process documentation, perform supplier capability reviews, and drive continuous improvements in yield, delivery, and cost through

Qualifications

• 3+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own supplier performance across quality, cost, and schedule.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing documentation (process flows, build instructions, PFMEAs, and control plans) to enable consistent and repeatable production.
• Assess and qualify supplier manufacturing capability to meet design intent, production rate, and scalability requirements through detailed process reviews and onsite audits.
• Build and own should-cost models for key components and assemblies; partner with engineering, sourcing, and finance to identify cost drivers and opportunities for value engineering.
• Lead technical program management for supplier-driven workstreams, aligning build readiness, material availability, and design milestones.
• Review and approve manufacturing process changes, ensuring design compliance, risk mitigation, and smooth implementation through structured change management.
• Plan and execute supplier ramp-ups and new product introductions, coordinating technical readiness, pilot builds, and early production validation.
• Establish performance tracking mechanisms for yield, throughput, and process capability; leverage metrics to identify and close performance gaps.
• Drive root-cause and corrective action activities to resolve quality, delivery, and process issues while enabling long-term improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design engineering, sourcing, quality, and operations to align supplier strategy with product and program objectives.
• Develop and deploy scalable mechanisms to monitor, report, and continuously improve supplier manufacturing performance.

Job description

Amazon Prime Air is seeking a highly capable Supply Chain Engineer to own supplier performance across quality, cost, and schedule within hardware development and operation teams in Seattle. You will partner with design, sourcing, and manufacturing to ensure production targets and scale are met while enabling new product introductions.

You will develop and maintain process documentation, perform supplier capability reviews, and drive continuous improvements in yield, delivery, and cost through