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Amazon · 3 months ago

Systems Engineer - Propulsion, Leo-GNC

Redmond, Washington, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$116K/yr - $201K/yr

Amazon is a leading company in satellite technology with its Amazon Leo project aimed at providing internet connectivity through a low Earth orbit satellite network. The role involves working with the Propulsion Design Engineering team to create and maintain systems engineering artifacts, ensuring that propulsion hardware and software perform as required while supporting flight operations and anomaly identification.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Verify system operation & performance in flight, test, and emulated test venues

Develop rational and define design & test requirements derived from high-level system requirements

Identify, document, and address gaps in test coverage and requirements

Support data reviews of ground tests and flight operations: confirm nominal operation, identify and investigate anomalies

Develop or implement tools and processes to support autonomous and scalable identification of anomalies in test/flight data

Write, run, and review hardware-in-the-loop tests against system concept of operations (CONOPs) and requirements

Support writing, reviewing, and maintaining design and test artifacts for the production propulsion system. This includes software interfaces, high-level software requirements, and propulsion system requirements

Support systems engineering efforts within the Propulsion Design team, and with critical stakeholders (e.g. software, avionics, thermal, GNC)

Support on-orbit operations

Qualification

Systems engineering artifactsSatellite propulsion systemsPythonFailure modesEffects analysisTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent

Direct experience defining and/or maintaining systems engineering artifacts for complex and critical system designs - spanning hardware and software. Examples: hardware or software design requirements, interface control documents, failure modes and effects analysis, fault tree analysis, system databooks

Preferred

Experience applying of systems engineering artifacts (e.g. design requirements, failure modes and effects analysis) in the HW & SW development lifecycle - including development, test, production, and operations

Design, test, integration, and/or operation of satellite propulsion systems

Familiarity with interdependencies between satellite propulsion systems and other high-level vehicle systems (e.g. power, attitude control, thermal)

Familiarity with the basic sub-systems comprising a satellite electric propulsion system, including tradeoffs between simplicity, reliability, and performance

Experience defining and implementing a system's concept of operations (CONOPs)

Proficient applying Python for analysis or simulation (or similar, e.g. MATLAB)