Senior Systems Engineer, Satellite Avionics

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.

Our goal is to be Earths most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space-based systems design.

We are looking for the next member of our avionics development team who are building critical components for Amazon Leo satellites. We are looking for an exceptional systems engineer who combines superb technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to deliver hardware.

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
Own the systems engineering execution for avionics hardware products from architecture and requirements through qualification production ramp and on-orbit support in partnership with the responsible hardware development engineers.
Lead product-level hardware architecture translating vehicle mission and subsystem needs into clear achievable and manufacturable design requirements.
Develop and maintain product requirements functional architectures interface definitions and verification traceability for avionics hardware.
Define and manage the electrical functional data timing power and fault-management interfaces between avionics hardware products and the broader satellite.
Lead product requirements reviews architecture reviews interface reviews and verification readiness reviews.
Drive technical trades and cross-functional decisions to ensure avionics hardware designs meet performance reliability safety manufacturability testability and operational needs.
Develop and execute verification and qualification strategies that demonstrate compliance with hardware design requirements.
Lead resolution of requirements interface integration and verification issues across development qualification production and on-orbit learning.
Establish and maintain requirements traceability interface control and verification frameworks for avionics hardware products.
Support production readiness and ramp by ensuring requirements interfaces acceptance criteria and verification evidence remain complete current and controlled.
Influence cross-functional teams including electrical mechanical firmware software manufacturing test integration and suppliers to deliver integrated avionics hardware and meet program milestones.
Act as a technical leader within the Avionics Electrical Engineering team raising the bar for hardware systems engineering and developing other engineers.

A day in the life
As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be part of the Avionics Electrical Engineering team helping define the architecture requirements and interfaces of hardware products supporting satellite functions such as solar deploy and actuation flight computer propulsion attitude control and more. You will lead work across the hardware development lifecycle from early architecture and requirements development through detailed design integration qualification production and on-orbit operation.

You will help define what each avionics hardware product must do establish its electrical functional and physical interfaces with other hardware and the satellite and ensure the resulting design satisfies vehicle and mission needs. Working closely with the responsible hardware development engineers you will lead critical product-level architectural efforts while partnering across electrical mechanical firmware software manufacturing test and integration teams to solve complex problems.

A primary focus of this role is ensuring that we design and build the right avionics hardware products and that every design requirement is objectively verified. You will maintain clear traceability from vehicle and subsystem needs to product-level hardware requirements interface definitions and verification evidence.

About the team
Our team is responsible for delivering production hardware subsystems for satellite avionics. We take ownership and work hard to deliver the highest quality solutions to support the long-term success of Amazon Leo. This team consists of a broad set of technical backgrounds and we look forward to welcoming people that are excited to help us deliver broadband internet to underserved communities!

- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- Experience with architecture or system engineering
- Experience providing technical leadership on high-impact cross-fucntional technical project
- 5 years of experience developing complex hardware systems across the full product lifecycle from concept through production
- Experience defining and managing interfaces between hardware firmware software mechanical or vehicle-level systems
- Experience developing requirements traceability and verification plans
- Experience supporting hardware integration verification validation or qualification
- Experience leading system-level technical trades failure investigations or root cause resolution

- Masters degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 7 years of experience developing complex hardware systems across the full product lifecycle in aerospace automotive or similar high-reliability environments
- Experience with satellite avionics spacecraft or vehicle control systems
- Experience with electrical power command and data handling propulsion control attitude control sensing or fault-management architectures
- Experience defining electrical data timing power thermal mechanical or functional interfaces
- Experience with requirements-management and common systems engineering tools
- Experience developing qualification and verification strategies for harsh environments
- Experience integrating electronics into complex electromechanical assemblies or vehicles
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop or other system-level test methodologies
- Experience with production readiness acceptance testing configuration control or verification evidence management

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