Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer, Prime Air Quality
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Moderate value due to specialized skill requirements and high impact on product quality.
- Key role in maintaining product quality
- Involves decision-making in supplier engagement
- Supports innovations in delivery systems
- May require extensive travel
Pros
- Leadership role in quality assurance for innovative delivery systems
- Collaborative environment with a team of experts
- Exposure to advanced technologies in aerospace and engineering
Cons
- Expectations for a high degree of technical proficiency
- Potentially high travel requirements
- May involve managing complex stakeholder relationships
Who it's for
Mid to Senior Level • On-site with some travel
Good fit
- Skilled quality engineers
- Those with supplier management experience
- Candidates interested in high-stakes engineering
Not recommended for
- New professionals without quality engineering skills
- Individuals preferring a strictly remote role
- Candidates uncomfortable with technical audits
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Description
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization.
How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and—most importantly—safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what’s to come. Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drone-reveal-photos).
If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you.
Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team!
Prime Air is seeking an experienced Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer, who combines technical and analytical capabilities. This leader will have a strong background in Supplier Quality, Quality Engineering, Design, Manufacturing and Assembly of complex products with a demonstrated ability to lead and get the right things done quickly and effectively. We’re looking for people who innovate and love solving hard problems. The right candidate will also be a strong integrator who prioritizes well and communicates effectively. You will work hard, have fun, and of course, make history!
Export Control License: This position may require a deemed export control license for compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Placement is contingent on Amazon’s ability to apply for and obtain an export control license on your behalf.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop supplier quality engagement strategies from product development through sustaining operations.
- Collaborate with Engineering to optimize product design through DFMEAs.
- Strategize and support supplier product qualification best practices
- Review/approve qualification documents such as DFMEAs, PFMEAs, Control Plans, FAIs, etc.
- Scale existing supplier process and quality systems to reduce defects with increasing volumes.
- Conduct initial, surveillance and for-cause supplier audits.
- Engage in internal/external Corrective Actions, improvement, and design change opportunities.
- Work with suppliers to solve/prevent technical product and process problems across a broad set of manufacturing commodities
- Identify supplier-related failure trends and drive investigation, failure analysis, and remediation
- Participate in strategic sourcing discussions
- Guide on best practice supplier management activities
- Long range planning for Supplier Quality processes and technologies for operations at scale.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to generate safe, high quality, cost effective products at scale
- Actively support and foster a culture of inclusion
