Senior Electrical Engineer, ALG, Leo Government

Overview

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo Government (ALG) aims to leverage Kuiper technology to deliver high speed, low latency, and secure satellite broadband services to the United States and allied government customers.

The Senior Electrical Engineer will lead analysis and design solutions focusing on satellite and ground system design, and on the electronics sub-systems' communication and control needs (compute, storage, data transfer, etc.). They will guide tasks from schematic design and component selection to circuit analysis, simulation, layout review, board bring-up, and test. The role requires collaboration across teams, supporting fellow engineers with design reviews and joint reports and proposals, and conducting trades to ensure solutions meet customer goals.

The candidate should have experience working on complex programs with diverse teams and partner organizations (including government agencies), and show potential to lead small sub-teams of electrical engineers and produce clear, technically compelling written reports.

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• Interact directly with customers to understand technical requirements and translate them into technically robust solutions backed by data and analysis.
• Responsible for electrical circuit design (including digital and analog power) for hosting sensitive RF and communications payloads including processing, memory, and communication buses.
• Design and analyze electronic circuits including Analog Power, Digital Design, Mixed-Signal ADC/DAC, Processors, FPGA, MCU, SoC, Memory, Transceivers, Clock generation and distribution.
• Analyze designed circuits using software tools for performance and characterization including Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) on fabricated PCB designs.
• Identify top-level customer requirements and ensure high quality and innovative designs are pursued.
• Perform electrical design and layout trade studies for electrical and power sub-systems contributing to overall system architecture, including inputs and requirements from cross-discipline teams.
• Facilitate cost trades on multiple parallel configurations for cost/manufacturability vs design uncertainty.
• Deliver well-written documentation, reports, and presentations for technical design reviews and proposal efforts.
• Design and support test campaigns, both development and qualification/acceptance, for space hardware.
• Security Clearance:
  This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance of TS/SCI.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in hardware development across the full product life cycle (concept to production)
• 7+ years of electrical engineering work experience in Space, Aerospace/Defense, Automotive, and/or Communications fields or combination thereof
• 7+ years of experience with schematic and layout ECAD tools and with PCB design and debugging

• Master's or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline
• Experience with complex board designs, such as high-speed interconnects, high-reliability designs, avionics, vehicle control systems, and/or motor & actuator control electronics
• Experience in development and test of satellite bus systems and space/flight hardware
• Electronics design/qualification experience with radiation environments or radiation tolerant hardware
• Experience with rapid iteration prototyping and joint hardware/firmware development; partnering with software engineers to bring-up and test new hardware designs
• Experience with analysis to define the spacecraft electromagnetic environment including radiated and conducted emissions and susceptibility (RE/CE/RS/CS) to inform design and test of spacecraft
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language such as Python or C/C++
• Track record of delivering written reports…