Sr. TPM – Electronic Systems - Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

The Senior Technical Program Manager for Kuiper will help define and develop the interfaces, requirements, and lead technical efforts and reviews. This role includes direct responsibility for system level development, integration, and test and all program management. This is a highly technical role requiring experience with integrated hardware and software development as well as some appreciation for complex applications. You will have significant influence over the design and the test approach we take to develop the system.

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.

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
This position requires an engineering, systems, and program management background and direct experience developing relevant systems. You will create and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but will also roll up your sleeves and contribute directly on systems requirements, technical strategy, technical specifications, and test plans. A Senior TPM anticipates bottlenecks, uses great judgment to make trade-offs, influences multiple technical teams and balances the business needs with technical constraints. Your ability to understand the big picture of the project design and anticipate and plan dependencies is crucial. Your ability to deliver large, complex projects on-time across multiple engineering domains is invaluable. You will work with a team of experts and drive the team to successfully accomplish the following activities:

- Drive complex cross-functional engineering trades to optimize performance, manufacturability and reliability of high-performance systems.
- Develop and manage technical requirements and interfaces that tie to system level requirements.
- Identify and lead trade studies and analyses necessary to understanding performance and other aspects of the design.
- Identify features and lead development through delivery of complex software and hardware.
- Optimize the velocity of engineering development through the design and automation of mechanisms.
- Develop and manage timeline, dependencies, and deliverables.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science , Computer Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of hardware, software, system integration and test development of complex systems across the full product life cycle – concept to production.
- 4+ years of experience in a technical lead, systems engineer, or technical program management role with significant experience architecting, integrating, delivering HW and SW into a complex system.
- 4+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams delivering products on schedule.
- Experience in one or more of the following skills: Python, Java, C/C++ or other common industry languages.
- Well-versed in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), waterfall and Agile Development Environment.
- Proficiency with at least one schedule tracking tools such as MS Project, SmartSheet or alternative.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in Physics, Electrical engineering, Communications engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Avionics Systems.
- Experience with high volume manufacturing test methods, concepts and solutions.
- Ability to lead interdisciplinary discussions between Hardware, Firmware and Software teams to define and drive scope and clarity of work, and reach optimum system level trades.
- Experience in high-speed characterization of devices, operation of high speed and high frequency test equipment, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and high-speed oscilloscopes.
- Experience developing high-performance systems for aerospace applications or systems operating in extreme environments.
- Experience in automated testing and system characterization.