PCBA Manufacturing Engineer – Amazon Leo

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February 11, 2026
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Job Description

📍 Location: Bellevue, WA, USA
💰 Salary: $117,300 – $160,000 USD annually + Sign-on Bonus + RSUs
🏢 Company: Amazon (Leo – Low Earth Orbit Satellite Program)
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time
✈️ Travel Requirement: Up to 50%

🚀 About Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is an ambitious initiative to expand global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The mission is to deliver fast, affordable internet to unserved and underserved communities worldwide — helping close the digital divide for consumers, businesses, government agencies, and organizations operating in areas without reliable connectivity.

This is a rare opportunity to work on next-generation satellite systems at scale.

🔐 Export Control Requirement

Due to U.S. export control regulations, candidates must be:

  • A U.S. citizen or national
  • A U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder)
  • Lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum

🎯 Role Overview

As a PCBA Manufacturing Engineer, you will be directly responsible for bringing complex electronic assembly designs to life.

You will partner closely with Design Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Reliability, and Contract Manufacturing (CM) teams to:

  • Optimize designs for manufacturability (DFM)
  • Improve yield, cost, and cycle time
  • Drive production readiness and scaling
  • Solve complex aerospace manufacturing challenges

This role requires both deep technical expertise and systems-level thinking to support high-reliability, low-cost satellite bus and payload production.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

🏗 Design for Manufacturing (DFM)

  • Provide PCB/PCBA DFM feedback to design teams
  • Identify and escalate manufacturing risks early in development
  • Ensure design alignment with high-volume aerospace production requirements

🏭 Manufacturing Qualification & Readiness

  • Drive PCBA Manufacturing Qualification at Contract Manufacturers (CM)
  • Define manufacturing readiness requirements
  • Lead key production milestone reviews
  • Ensure production readiness deliverables are completed

⚙️ Process Development & Optimization

  • Investigate and implement new manufacturing technologies
  • Improve quality, reliability, throughput, and cost
  • Deliver standardized rework practices and equipment capability validation
  • Optimize processes during pre-production and ramp phases

🔍 Failure Analysis & Continuous Improvement

  • Investigate defects during production, test, and integration
  • Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
  • Reduce manufacturing risks and simplify processes
  • Provide status updates from design through production ramp

🛠 Required Technical Experience

  • PCB Assembly Processes:
    • Stencil printing & solder paste application
    • SPI (Solder Paste Inspection)
    • Pick & Place
    • SMT Reflow
    • AOI (Automated Optical Inspection)
    • 5DX (X-ray inspection)
    • Selective soldering
    • Flying probe testing
    • Cleaning/wash processes
  • Experience collaborating with:
    • Contract manufacturers
    • Suppliers
    • 3rd-party test and failure analysis partners

✅ Basic Qualifications

  • 4+ years of mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
  • Experience with board assembly processes and manufacturing equipment
  • Strong independent execution skills
  • Clear and timely communication with manufacturing partners

⭐ Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with IPC-A-610H Class 3 & IPC J-STD-001H compliance
  • Polymeric applications (conformal coating, staking, underfill)
  • Knowledge of solder alloys (leaded, lead-free, next-gen low temp alloys)
  • Experience with flying probe test systems & Design for Test (DFT)
  • Aerospace or high-reliability electronics experience

💼 Compensation & Benefits

💰 Base Salary: $117,300 – $160,000 USD annually
📈 Additional Compensation:

  • Sign-on bonus
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

🩺 Comprehensive Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life & AD&D insurance
  • Mental health support & EAP
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement

🌍 Equal Opportunity Employer

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and does not discriminate based on protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

If you require workplace accommodations during the hiring process, please visit Amazon’s accommodations page or contact your Recruiting Partner.

🌌 Why Join Amazon Leo?

  • Work on a satellite constellation transforming global connectivity
  • Solve complex aerospace manufacturing challenges
  • Influence high-volume, high-reliability electronics production
  • Be part of one of Amazon’s most ambitious space technology programs