Liaison Engineering Manager, Avionics

• Key job responsibilities
• Lead a team of engineers responsible for new product introduction and sustaining engineering across Amazon Leo avionics bus LRUs.
• Own the development organization's production-facing engineering support model for released avionics hardware.
• Drive successful transition of new and revised avionics hardware from development into stable production.
• Ensure rapid technical response to production hardware and test issues, including triage, containment, disposition, root-cause investigation, and corrective action.
• Establish clear ownership and operating mechanisms for MRB, production hardware troubleshooting, and acceptance test issues across the avionics bus portfolio.
• Partner with avionics design engineering to ensure recurring production issues result in appropriate design, test, documentation, or process improvements.
• Work closely with manufacturing engineering, test engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, and program teams.
• Use production data including yield, failure trends, test escapes, cycle time, nonconformance trends, and recurring support demand to identify systemic improvement opportunities.
• Drive improvements to manufacturing test flows, troubleshooting methods, engineering documentation, and production support processes.
• Balance immediate production needs with longer-term improvements that reduce technical debt and improve scalability.
• Communicate production engineering health, technical risks, recurring issues, and recovery plans to engineering and program leadership.
• A day in the life
• As the Avionics NPI & Sustaining Engineering Manager, you will lead a team operating at the boundary between hardware development and production.
• About the team
• The Avionics Electrical Engineering organization designs and delivers electrical hardware supporting Amazon Leo's satellite bus.
• Our team works across the avionics hardware portfolio to help ensure designs can be repeatedly built, tested, debugged, and delivered in a high-rate production environment.
• Bachelor's degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in hardware development, test, sustaining engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related engineering discipline supporting complex electronic hardware products.
• 3+ years of experience in a management, engineering leadership, or team-lead function.
• Experience supporting electronic hardware across the product lifecycle from development through production.
• Experience leading root-cause investigations and corrective actions for complex electronic hardware issues.
• Experience with PCBA-level hardware, electrical test, hardware bring-up, and troubleshooting.
• Experience working across design engineering, manufacturing, test, quality, and operations organizations.

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