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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Senior Mfg Quality Engineer - 2nd Shift, Amazon Leo

Full-Time
$137.3k - $185.7k/yr+ Sign-on payments + RSUs
Senior
Master's
Merritt Island, FL, USA
In PersonMust be willing to travel to French Guiana for 45 calendar days per year.
QA & Testing, Manufacturing Quality & TestQuality Engineering
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
  • 5+ years of experience in large product assembly quality engineering, manufacturing, or operations throughout a production lifecycle development
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Passport and must meet customs entry requirements including Yellow Fever vaccine and other immunization requirements as recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Must be able to pass Kennedy Space Center background checks
  • Export Control Requirement: 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
  • Willing to travel to French Guiana for 45 calendar days per year
Responsibilities
  • Develop and lead Leo Quality management activities, including process definition and validation for assembly and test methods, part and process qualification, receiving inspection plans, in-process inspection capabilities, and process monitoring capabilities
  • Lead Material Review Board discussions in Amazon's Finished Satellite Payload Processing facility, determining product dispositions for nonconforming material
  • Lead the development and launch of multiple aspects of the Quality Management System across Leo
  • Dive deep into root cause corrective action activities for the production processes immediately before Leo satellites are loaded in the launch vehicle
  • Work directly with Receiving Inspection, Supplier Quality, and Engineering teams to develop and qualify inspection, monitoring, and verification methods for the Leo Production System
  • Be a subject matter expert in launch vehicle payload processing quality assurance for the Leo Production System
  • This position will work 2nd shift Mon-Thurs: 1630-0300
  • Perform daily defect resolution as the Quality member
  • Investigates Production System issues to reduce defect rates and drive root cause corrective actions
  • Implements the Leo Quality System through process development and launch mechanisms
  • Partners with cross-functional groups to develop and qualify internal production processes, including Quality Assurance processes
  • Conduct rigorous Continuous Improvement activities to prevent recurrence of non-conformances during assembly
  • Perform audit activities to ensure compliance to QMS requirements
  • Develop and modify process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, MSAs, and other APQP artifacts to support continued high quality production
  • Working within an AS9100 (or similar) certified quality system
Desired Qualifications
  • Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
  • Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
  • Experience with the project management of technical projects

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
  • Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
  • Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
  • Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
  • Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.

What makes Amazon unique

  • Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
  • Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
  • Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.

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