Senior Electrical Engineer, Inter - satellite Link Avionics

Project Kuiper Senior Electrical Engineer

Project Kuiper 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. The Senior Electrical Engineer will be a member of the Kuiper Inter-Satellite Link Avionics team, focusing on the design of the various electrical functions including analog sensor signal conditioning and processing, analog actuator control, and overall monitoring and control across spacecraft interfaces. 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

• Lead a variety of tasks, from board design and component selection, to layout review, board bring-up, system test and root cause analysis at the subsystem as well as system level.
• Ensure high quality and innovative designs, while also supporting other Project Kuiper colleagues with reviewing and improving board and other electrical designs.

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 be expected to work with a team of top-notch engineers and collaborate with multiple other spacecraft design and integration teams. You should be comfortable with a high degree of autonomy and relish the idea of solving problems that haven't 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.

A Day in the Life

• Tackle challenging, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations.
• Your tasks would vary between board design, layout reviews, test plan development and qualification.
• This is a cross-functional role requiring constant interaction with multiple HW/SW design teams and end-users.