Systems Engineer Propulsion, Leo-GNC

Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools hospitals businesses and government agencies Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

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.

In this role you will work with the Propulsion Design Engineering team to create and maintain our teams systems engineering artifacts applying them to ensure that Propulsion hardware and software perform as required. You will support reviews of ground tests and flight operations while developing the knowledge and experience to support mission operations in real time. You will also help stand-up processes enabling the autonomous and scalable identification of trends or anomalies in telemetry from flight & ground tests.

Key job responsibilities
- Verify system operation & performance in flight test and emulated test venues
- Develop rational and define design & test requirements derived from high-level system requirements
- Identify document and address gaps in test coverage and requirements
- Support data reviews of ground tests and flight operations: confirm nominal operation identify and investigate anomalies
- Develop or implement tools and processes to support autonomous and scalable identification of anomalies in test/flight data.
- Write run and review hardware-in-the-loop tests against system concept of operations (CONOPs) and requirements
- Support writing reviewing and maintaining design and test artifacts for the production propulsion system. This includes software interfaces high-level software requirements and propulsion system requirements.
- Support systems engineering efforts within the Propulsion Design team and with critical stakeholders (e.g. software avionics thermal GNC)
- Support on-orbit operations


- Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science Physics or equivalent.

- Direct experience defining and/or maintaining systems engineering artifacts for complex and critical system designs - spanning hardware and software. Examples: hardware or software design requirements interface control documents failure modes and effects analysis fault tree analysis system databooks

- Experience applying of systems engineering artifacts (e.g. design requirements failure modes and effects analysis) in the HW & SW development lifecycle - including development test production and operations
- Design test integration and/or operation of satellite propulsion systems
- Familiarity with interdependencies between satellite propulsion systems and other high-level vehicle systems (e.g. power attitude control thermal)
- Familiarity with the basic sub-systems comprising a satellite electric propulsion system including tradeoffs between simplicity reliability and performance
- Experience defining and implementing a systems concept of operations (CONOPs)
- Proficient applying Python for analysis or simulation (or similar e.g. MATLAB)

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.