Senior Lab Buildout and Operations Manager, Integration & Test, Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable broadband connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From households to small businesses, schools, hospitals, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve communities and organizations operating in places without dependable internet access.

We are looking for a hands-on Sr. Lab Buildout and Operations Manager to own the deployment, readiness, and sustained operation of RF, networking, and system-integration lab environments. This role will manage lab infrastructure buildouts across Austin, San Diego, and Seattle, ensuring labs are built, instrumented, networked, documented, and operationally ready for engineering use.

The ideal candidate has a strong mix of lab operations, RF test infrastructure, networking, procurement, vendor management, and hands-on systems experience. This person should be comfortable working across engineering, facilities, procurement, vendors, and site leadership to turn unclear lab requirements into executable build plans.

Key job responsibilities Lab Buildout and Site Readiness

• Own end-to-end lab buildout execution for RF and system-integration environments across Austin, San Diego, and Seattle.
• Coordinate deployment of racks, benches, chambers, RF infrastructure, test equipment, control stations, cabling, power, grounding, cooling, and secure lab network access.
• Drive readiness for RF test areas, integrated system test beds, hardware-in-the-loop environments, and production-representative lab setups.
• Partner with Facilities, Networking, Security, Hardware, RF, Software, and Test teams to ensure lab spaces are usable, safe, scalable, and -operationally reliable.
• Maintain lab bring-up schedules, punch lists, dependency trackers, and operational readiness checklists.

RF, Network, and Test Infrastructure Operations

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