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.

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
Technical Leadership & Expertise
- Partner closely with the core Commodity Engineering team while operating within the Electronic Supply Chain team
- Serve as a senior technical authority for Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing teams
- Collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams to lead Component Failure Analysis investigations and drive systemic Corrective Actions that prevent recurrence

Sourcing & Supplier Management
- Working closely with the Global Commodity Manager and Material Program Manager team, identify and recommend potential alternate parts for risk and issue mitigation and/or cost reduction.
- Partnering with the Commodity Engineering and Electrical Engineering teams as well as the Global Commodity Managers, define the long term preferred vendor list for electronic component vendors
Component Evaluation & Selection
- Enforce requirements compliance standards for Electrical Component Requests
- Alternate component research to reduce supply chain risk
- Drive equivalency research strategy to expand and diversify component options

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Drive alignment across design, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain leadership on component strategy
- Develop, implement, and improve component related problem resolution strategies in the supply chain with Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Reliability