Product Design Engineer – Customer Terminals, Kuiper CT PD

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.

Product Design (PD) strives to constantly raise the bar on the customer experience. Product Design Engineers engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to conceive, design and bring to market innovative consumer products for the Kuiper program.

Key responsibilities include mechanical part and assembly design, testing, evaluating, and down selection. These positions identify key design attributes, and work quickly and efficiently to converge on an electromechanical design for the system.

They highlight concerning issues to leadership and provide recommendations on how to revolve them. The output of their work is the physical product.

They know intimately the rationale and tradeoffs behind each and every detail of the design from material selection, a reinforcing rib, a molding gate, etc.

They work with manufacturing partners early to scale their designs for high volume manufacturing while optimizing for cost, performance and aggressive schedules.

They have the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with PD team members, cross functional teams, and executives.

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

• PD Direct Responsible Individual (DRI) for multiple system components (housings, PCBs, thermal components, etc).
• Work with cross functional team to solve difficult electromechanical problems to enable the design.
• Identify key design constrains and priorities.
• Demonstrate solid mechanical fundamentals and judgement through design decisions
• Deliver robust, flexible, durable, and performant designs
• Concise and accurate communication with PD members, cross functional teams, and executives.
• Customer focused when solving ambiguous problems.
• Ability to create scalable solutions while solving tactical problems.

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

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or other closely related fields of study.
• 3+ years of experience product design (consumer, medical, telecom, etc)
• 3+ years of experience with 3D CAD modeling & 2D drawing creation
• Experience with designing for high volume manufacturing and assembly processes (plastic injection / thermoforming, casting, sheet metal, machining, various finishing processes)
• Experience performing tolerance analysis and statistical analysis techniques

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS in Mechanical Engineering or other closely related engineering field of study.
• 5+ years of experience in consumer electronics products designing IP66 outdoor rated electronics / telecommunications products.
• Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), flexes and electrical interconnect design experience
• Experience performing mechanical and thermal Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations
• Subject Matter Expert in several mechanical engineering disciplines.
• Experience with Phase Array antennas including products used in the field.
• Excellent mechanics and material fundamentals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at both the engineering and executive level
11 days ago