Sr Process Engineer, Continuous Improvement, Amazon Leo

ID: 6968

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Location: USA, WA, BELLEVUE - Bellevue - United States

Salary: 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually

Job Description

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

This key role will be focused on improving Amazon Leo's high rate Satellite production through continuous improvement strategies. In this role, you will be a senior member of the team that will drive improvements in a variety of areas such as manufacturing, testing, supply chain and/or fulfillment processes. To deliver these complex solutions, you will partner with peers across all Amazon Leo's teams, including hardware, software, manufacturing, quality, launch, test etc. Candidate superpowers should include earn trust, ownership, insist on high standards, continuous improvement, stakeholder management, innovation and simplification. The role is based in Redmond, WA.

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.

Key job responsibilities
The Sr Process Engineer for ProdOps Continuous Improvement drives high-impact performance improvements across manufacturing, test, and supply chain operations through data-driven analysis, Lean Six Sigma methodology, and digital automation. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills to enhance operational efficiency and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Their responsibility includes:

- Driving a large continuous improvement portfolio of impactful projects
- Lead complex DMAIC or Lean Six Sigma projects from define to control phase, targeting measurable business outcomes (throughput, cost, yield, OEE).
- Quantify business impact of improvement opportunities and present data-backed recommendations to leadership.
- Partner with manufacturing and test engineers to implement process controls, design experiments, and reduce variation.
- Develop and document standard work, control plans, and process capability metrics (Cpk, OEE, FPY).
- Autonomously own deep dives to root cause a specific process or area (product engineering).
- Assess the effectiveness of all operational activities on site using specific analytical tools (eg. Kaizen, Six Sigma, DMAIC, VSM, statistical studies, etc.) to generate proposals for waste-reduction, bottle neck reductions and corrective actions.
- Apply advanced statistical methods — regression, ANOVA, DOE, and SPC — to verify root causes and validate solutions.
- Embody Amazon's Leadership Principles to achieve operational excellence and drive transformative change
- Enhance operational efficiency and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Mentor and develop junior engineers.

A day in the life
This role will be highly collaborative, requiring partnerships with cross-functional leaders to drive positive results. This role requires ability to advocate on behalf of our customers (internal and external) and an ability to push back without being adversarial. You will act as an internal consultant across multiple value streams, helping teams adopt data-driven decision making.

You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that haven't been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you will learn a lot, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

About the team
The Operations Command Center (OCC) team is the Amazon Leo's Production Operations Integrated program management function that enables successful production scaling. The vision of OCC team is to enable success of end-to-end Amazon Leo's operations team by proactively developing systems, processes, mechanisms, and tools that are required to detect issues, expose root cause, validate improvements, maintain controls, and drive operational rhythms.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
- 6+ years experience in manufacturing, test, or supply chain environment with demonstrated track record in Lean Six Sigma projects.
- Experience in high-mix, high-precision or electronics/aerospace assembly at high volumes.
- Strong problem-solver, analytical thinker, and effective communicator across both shop-floor presence and executive leadership. Able to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Experience with the project management of technical projects
- Skilled in Python, SQL, and Power BI/Tableau for data extraction and visualization. Familiar with Minitab, JMP, or equivalent for statistical analysis. Experience pulling data from MES/ERP/test systems.
- Familiarity with AI/ML techniques applied to manufacturing (predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, process mining).
- Knowledge of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution system (MES) software.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually

Company Information

Company Name: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Company Website: https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-is/project-kuiper

Company Address: USA, WA, Redmond

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is an Amazon-associated corporate entity created to support the development, production and operational deployment activities for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s initiative to develop a broadband satellite network in low Earth orbit (LEO). The company functions within the broader Project Kuiper organization and is focused on the industrial, engineering and manufacturing aspects required to design, build, and integrate spacecraft, user terminals and associated hardware, as part of Amazon’s effort to establish a global satellite broadband service. Public information published by Amazon about Project Kuiper frames the program’s goals in terms of building a LEO satellite constellation, associated ground infrastructure and customer-premises equipment to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities; Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC exists as one of the legal entities established to carry out the program’s manufacturing, supply-chain and industrial activities. As a manufacturing and systems-integration organization tied to a major commercial space program, the company’s core business activities are centered on hardware engineering, production readiness and industrial-scale assembly for space systems. These activities include supporting spacecraft bus and payload assembly, production planning and quality assurance; coordinating the manufacture and supply of user terminals and customer premises equipment (CPE) such as phased-array antennas or other consumer terminals; establishing and operating test, integration and environmental verification facilities; and implementing production-line processes necessary to meet the volume and reliability requirements of a commercial LEO constellation. The entity also supports logistics, supplier qualification, procurement for specialty electronic and mechanical components, and regulatory compliance activities that relate specifically to manufacturing and integration of aerospace hardware. Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC’s primary outputs and services therefore include satellite hardware components and assembled satellites ready for final test and launch integration, production-configured user terminal hardware for consumer and enterprise customers, and manufactured subsystems that support ground segment operations such as gateways and network instrumentation. Beyond physical products, the organization provides engineering, manufacturing and integration services necessary to move designs from prototype through qualification and into production. This includes establishing production lines and test facilities, implementing manufacturing best practices for electronics and aerospace assemblies, and coordinating with other technical organizations within Project Kuiper and Amazon to ensure seamless handoffs between design, software, operations and launch partners. The company’s role is tightly coupled with several non-manufacturing functions that are nonetheless essential to a modern space-manufacturing program. These include coordination with supply-chain and procurement teams to secure long-lead and custom components; liaising with regulatory, legal and spectrum-management groups to ensure hardware and terminals comply with applicable authorizations; implementing traceability, configuration management and high-reliability quality systems typical of aerospace manufacturing; and supporting field deployment work for gateways and customer installations. Amazon’s public materials on Project Kuiper emphasize the need for a vertically integrated approach to support scalable deployment of satellites and terminals, and Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC represents the manufacturing/legal node within that approach. Industry context: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC operates at the intersection of aerospace manufacturing, satellite communications and consumer telecommunications hardware. The broader Project Kuiper program is publicly described by Amazon as a LEO satellite broadband initiative intended to expand high-speed internet access; accordingly, the manufacturing activities undertaken by this entity are aligned with aerospace systems engineering, satellite manufacturing, and telecommunications equipment production. As part of that ecosystem, the company adheres to manufacturing standards and practices appropriate for spaceflight hardware—environmental testing, reliability engineering, EEE parts control, and assemblies compatible with launch environments—and it supports the downstream network operations and customer-equipment deployments required for a commercial satellite broadband service. Affiliations and corporate role: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is an Amazon-branded legal entity associated with Project Kuiper. While corporate filings and public Amazon statements identify Project Kuiper as an Amazon initiative, this manufacturing entity is one of several Amazon legal entities and teams assembled to execute the program’s varied technical, regulatory and operational needs. Public-facing Project Kuiper communications underline Amazon’s commitments to building the constellation, deploying ground infrastructure and delivering consumer devices; the manufacturing enterprise named here is the explicit organizational focus on turning engineering designs into producible, testable hardware for that vision. Publicly verifiable information about the entity is typically found within Amazon’s Project Kuiper disclosures, corporate filings and regulatory submissions that identify Amazon’s organizational structure for the program. Official Amazon Project Kuiper materials provide high-level descriptions of objectives, required industrial capabilities and the types of products and services the program will deliver (LEO satellites, user terminals and ground infrastructure). For details on specific facilities, partner suppliers, production capacity, or the legal domicile and registered office of Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC, reviewers should consult Amazon’s official Project Kuiper pages, corporate filings and the filings or notices submitted to regulatory bodies and registries where the legal entity is registered.

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