Amazon LEO is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
The Lab Test Engineer role is responsible for keeping aerospace environmental test production running smoothly. You will troubleshoot issues that technicians encounter during daily testing, resolving problems with test setup, equipment, and IT infrastructure. The Lab Test Engineer will be an expert for our various Automated Test Equipment (Test Racks) used during environmental testing. With your expertise in environmental testing procedures, equipment, and basic Python scripting, you will identify root causes and implement corrective actions to maximize productivity and product quality. Additionally, you are responsible for production support activities including ticket management, change management, monitoring, metrics, documentation, process development, host provisioning, and hardware management. You may also debug, evaluate, and resolve software issues for applications and services that will improve availability and performance. You will develop scripts and applications to automate redundant tasks and to improve operational efficiency. You will work cross-functionally with Development, QA, and other Support teams to maintain and improve availability and performance of Amazon LEO's production Automated Test Equipment.
Key job responsibilities
- Maintain, troubleshoot and improve test automation hardware supporting production testing
- Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical or software problems on the fly, working with an integrated cross-functional team of manufacturing engineers, test engineers, lab technicians and maintenance teams to resolve
- Perform RCCA of issues in production testing and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence
- Develop and maintain calibration procedures for RF test equipment
- Define and implement solutions to optimize and automate environmental testing
- Work with other engineers to refine test requirements and the methodologies to achieve those requirements
- Willing to “roll up sleeves and do what needs to be done” in a small, specialized, team environment
- Must be willing to work off shifts and weekends as required
A day in the life
The primary goal of this role is to ensure all automated production test racks remain fully operational, properly calibrated, and ready for use by production technicians. Daily responsibilities include planning and coordinating preventive maintenance with schedulers, organizing and tracking all rack calibration activities, and maintaining accurate documentation and hardware configuration data in partnership with supporting engineering teams.
This role also oversees the readiness of spare test racks, ensuring they are maintained, functional, and available for rapid swap-in when needed. It includes coordinating any required repairs to return equipment to operational status. Additional responsibilities include cataloging test harness requirements, monitoring inventory and life-usage of harnesses, and ensuring adequate spare coverage.
The engineer is expected to respond quickly to escalations from technicians, providing troubleshooting support and resolving operational issues with the test racks to minimize production downtime.- Experience using common electronics test equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, function generators, etc)
- Experience in project management including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status and prioritizing own tasks and those of other team members for multiple projects
- 2+ years of hardware development, test lab, space/aerospace maintenance or hands-on engineering environment experience
- 2+ years of experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging automated test systems including electrical, mechanical, electronic, networking, and software systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field and/or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of production test station (automated test equipment) hardware/software design and factory deployment
- 2+ years of experience with electrical test equipment, data acquisition, and control software
- Experience writing/reading/debugging software in Python, C, C# or other language- 4+ years of hardware design, development, validation and delivery of embedded hardware product experience
- 2+ years of experience with environmental testing focusing on thermal and vacuum test processes
- 2+ years of experience working with RF test systems
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $89,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $189,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
