Hardware Development Engineer, Avionics Electrical Engineering, Amazon Leo

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.

Come work at Amazon! Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We seek professionals who are eager to join an ambitious project that continues to push the state of the art in satellite system design test. verification and operation.

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.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for an engineer who combines superb technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. You will work with a team of top-notch engineers and will collaborate with multiple spacecraft design integration test and operations teams. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that havent been solved at scale before. Along the way we guarantee that you will learn a lot have fun and make a positive impact on tens of millions of people.

Key responsibilities include:
Design PCBAs including schematic capture and layout.
Develop and lead bring up design validation reliability and qualification testing.
Develop and lead production acceptance test plan development.
Participate in design reviews for subsystems within the broader team.
Support debug efforts for your subsystem as well as other avionics subsystems.
Support requirement derivation and traceability for hardware subsystems.
Support production and integration efforts for hardware subsystems.
Supporting on-orbit operation and troubleshooting of avionics bus subsystems.
If this sounds like the role for you come make history with us!

A day in the life
You will lead a variety of tasks for your hardware subsystem from board design to board bring-up design validation and integration. You will work with a cross functional team to perform design validation and qualification testing for your subsystem. As your subsystem continues onto satellite level test and operations you will be the subject matter expert that interfaces with the vehicle integration & test and operations teams from test planning through launch and on orbit operations. As an experienced member of the team you will be responsible for evaluating hardware health telemetry across test and operations while also developing processes to troubleshoot and to incorporate design improvements for issues discovered.

About the team
Our team is responsible for delivering hardware subsystems for the flight computer power delivery and RF systems on the satellite avionics bus. Our team supports hardware subsystems development from initial design through testing integration verification and operation on-orbit.

This position is located in Redmond WA USA

This role requires supporting on-call shifts on a regular basis.


- Bachelors degree or above in electrical engineering computer engineering or equivalent
- 4 years of hardware design and validation of components subsystems and systems experience
- Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware or experience in computer architecture
- Experience with analog digital and high-speed circuit design
- Experience with schematic and layout ECAD tools.

- Masters degree or above in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Systems Engineering or related fields
- Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware or experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience with RF measurement equipment including: power meters spectrum analyzers vector signal generators network analyzers oscilloscopes
- 3 years of integration testing and automation experience
- Experience in Space Vehicle/Satellite Operations Space Communications or related industry
- 3 years of hardware development test lab space/aerospace maintenance or hands-on engineering environment experience
- 2 years of embedded firmware development experience
- Experience in software development with object oriented language
- Electronics design/qualification experience with radiation environments or radiation tolerant hardware.
- Experience with development of hardware in loop testing for automotive and/or aerospace systems.

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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 WA Redmond - 117300.00 - 160000.00 USD annually