Senior Systems Engineer, Satellite Avionics

Overview

Senior Systems Engineer, Satellite Avionics for Amazon Leo. Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network delivering fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond existing networks. We are building critical components for Amazon Leo satellites and seek an exceptional systems engineer with strong technical and analytical capabilities and a track record of delivering 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.

• 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.

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.

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!

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Experience with architecture or system engineering
• Experience providing technical leadership on high-impact cross-functional 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…