Project Kuiper 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.

As a Manufacturing Engineer supporting the machine shop, you will be responsible for work order planning/authoring and maintenance surrounding Project Kuiper’s machining processes. You will work closely with multiple engineering teams on both early hardware development and setting the stage for production hardware machining processes. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast paced, start-up like environment. To be successful you need to be highly motivated and detail oriented while showing the highest standards of execution.

Key job responsibilities
- Create and maintain shop work orders in Manufacturing Execution and ERP software.
- Interrogate CAD models and 2D technical drawings for manufacturing dimensions and requirements.
- Interface with purchasing group and NC programming group to prioritize, forecast and report load for the machine shop.
- Ensure all manufacturing steps are defined and planned for in ME software in order to furnish complete aerospace detail parts.
- Understand and update as needed, process steps for manufacturing tight tolerance, metallic aerospace parts.
- Communicate with purchasing group to ensure compliance with manufacturing and scheduling requirements.

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.

A day in the life
As a Manufacturing Engineer supporting the machine shop, you will be responsible for work order planning/authoring and maintenance surrounding Project Kuiper’s machining processes. You will work closely with multiple engineering teams on both early hardware development and setting the stage for production hardware machining processes. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast paced, start-up like environment. To be successful you need to be highly motivated and detail oriented while showing the highest standards of execution.

About the team
Kuiper’s Manufacturing Team is responsible for the manufacture, assembly, integration, and test of satellite hardware and the associated equipment and facility definition required to achieve production rates. We have broad ownership of hardware lifetimes, spanning cradle (procurement) to grave (launch).