Hardware Development Engineer, Avionics Electrical Engineering Team

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Our goal is to be Earth's 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.

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.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for an excellent 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 electrical 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 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.

Key responsibilities include:
Work within the Electrical & Test engineering team(s) to develop, test, and deliver hardware subsystems for the flight computer, power delivery, RF systems, and sensing systems on the satellite avionics bus.
Support hardware development milestones, including architecture reviews, requirement reviews, hardware design reviews, build release reviews, test results reviews, and flight release reviews.
Partner with cross-functional teams including antenna & RF engineering, mechanical engineering, software, test, integration, reliability, compliance/regulatory, manufacturing, program management, etc.
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.
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.
Participate in design reviews for subsystems within the broader team.

If this sounds like the role for you, come make history with us!

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.

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 is built in production, you will support manufacturing test engineering in diagnosis of issues at the contract manufacturers and through acceptance testing. 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 and 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, RF, and sensing 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.

- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- 4+ years of experience in hardware/software development across the product life cycle (concept to production at scale) in Consumer Electronics, Power Electronics, Robotics, Aerospace, Automotive, and/or Communications fields or combination thereof.
- Experience with schematic and layout ECAD tools.
- Experience with debugging designs with microprocessors, FPGAs, power supplies, and sensors.
- Experience with complex board designs, including high-speed interconnects, high-reliability designs, avionics, vehicle control systems, and/or motor & actuator control electronics.

- 7+ years designing and/or testing with SoCs, DRAMs, FPGAs, multi-gigabit interfaces, power converters, sensors, operational amplifiers, ADCs/DACs, high speed printed circuit boards, and harnessing.
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production.
- Experience with executing test, reporting/ dispositioning bugs, and providing status/results updates.
- Experience with space hardware qualification (MIL Std 1540 / SMC-S-016).
- Experience in two or more areas: EMI/EMC test, design verification test, radiation test, reliability test, and vehicle integration & test.
- Experience with setup, control and automation of lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, electronic loads, power supplies, network analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, etc.
- Experience with control and automation of thermal chambers for hardware product testing.
- Experience with developing scripts and/or software (Python) that aid the development or testing of hardware.
- Experience with RF design and test equipment.
- Experience in development and test of satellite bus systems.
- Experience with integration of systems into aerospace/avionics enclosures.
- Experience with operations of aerospace/avionics systems.
- Electronics design/qualification experience with radiation environments or radiation tolerant hardware.
- Experience developing requirements, test plans, and test procedures for design verification, qualification, and/or manufacturing test.
- Experience with development of hardware in loop testing for automotive and/or aerospace systems.
- Experience with low-level firmware development and integration.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $105,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.