AmazonEnvironmental Test Engineer, Space Simulation Lab
Amazon is hiring an Environmental Test Engineer, Space Simulation Lab in Kirkland, United States. It pays $39-$69/hr and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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- The posting mentions Labview, Python and environmental testing among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a mid-level role.
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- Posted within the past week.
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Own and maintain environmental test equipment, develop standardized test processes, and troubleshoot lab automation code.
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.
As an Environmental Test Engineer on the SSL team, you won't be one of many engineers maintaining a shared pool of equipment. You'll be the primary owner of an entire class of test equipment — Thermal, TVAC, Vibe, Shock, or HASS — accountable for keeping it running, driving its reliability upward, and building the processes that let the lab test at launch cadence. When something goes wrong at 2 AM, your name is on the escalation. When something needs to change, you own the engineering decision and the vendor conversation. When a technician learns the equipment, they learn it from you.
Key job responsibilities
Equipment Ownership
• Serve as primary owner for an assigned class of environmental test equipment (Thermal, TVAC, Vibe, Shock, or HASS), managing configurations, maintenance, calibration, and improvement projects.
• Provide technical leadership during troubleshooting events, driving issues from first response through root cause and corrective action.
• Manage relationships with 3rd-party equipment vendors (service, spares, upgrades, escalations).
Process Development
• Establish standardized test processes and work instructions that enable technicians to operate with minimal engineer supervision.
• Train and mentor technicians on equipment operation and troubleshooting; keep documentation accurate and current.
Rate Improvement
• Analyze test data to validate ability of test procedures to meet requirements.
• Identify and lead projects that increase throughput, reduce cycle time, and improve first-pass yield.
Automation Troubleshooting
• Read and triage simple errors in LabVIEW and Python code execution; clearly articulate failures to support teams for more complex issues.
• Apply understanding of control loops used in environmental test (thermal ramp control, vacuum/pressure control, shaker control) to diagnose equipment behavior.
A day in the life
This is a build job, not a maintain job. We're scaling SSL fast and we need an engineer who looks at tribal knowledge and turns it into standard work; who looks at a vendor's response time and decides it's not good enough; who can read a thermal ramp trace or a shaker response curve and tell you whether it's a tuning problem, a hardware problem, or a software problem. You will have autonomy, a direct line to leadership, and a tangible connection between the work you do this week and the hardware that leaves Earth next quarter. If you want your engineering decisions to show up in orbit — not just in a dashboard — come build this with us.
Basic qualifications
- 1+ years of consumer electronics lab environments experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Experience in software QA testing including writing test plans, use cases, and issue reports
- Experience in a consumer electronics lab environment
- Experience in a Linux or Unix environment
- Experience working on a consumer hardware or software product
Preferred qualifications
- Experience configuring, deploying, and testing software updates, including the ability to identify issues and escalate to development as appropriate
- Experience running user trials, beta, field testing or collecting customer feedback
- Experience working with hardware and software teams for setting up, testing, and troubleshooting prototype devices
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Kirkland - 39.47 - 69.08 USD hourly
How we rate this
Environmental Test Engineer, Space Simulation Lab at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- Tell me about a project where environmental testing was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where thermal testing was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where equipment ownership was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where automation troubleshooting was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Labview in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Environmental Testing, Thermal Testing, Equipment Ownership, Automation Troubleshooting, and Labview. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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