Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Development Engineer III

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world.

The mission of Amazon Leo's Government (ALG) team is to leverage existing Amazon Leo technology and provide high speed, low latency, and secure satellite broadband services to the United States and our allied government customers.

ALG is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer who combines superb technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to perform quality work. The ideal candidate would have experience working in spacecraft design, preferably including opto-mechanical and electronic subsystems.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will have a background in space-based and ground-based mechanical design. The ideal candidate has experience making major optimization trades for payloads and system architectures. This is a position that combines superb technical and analytical capabilities to convert trade studies to a space-qualified payload, while meeting cross-discipline requirements.

The candidate will focus on the specific needs of the customer and be able to conduct or direct design solutions to meet the customers goals.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Perform mechanical design and layout trade studies for satellite payloads or structures, ground-based communication equipment, and test support hardware contributing to overall system architecture, including inputs and requirements from cross-discipline teams - Electrical, RF, Optical, Thermal, Dynamics, Mechanisms, Materials, Manufacturing, Assembly, and Test.

• Perform trades on multiple configurations for cost/manufacturability vs design uncertainty.

• Generate detailed designs via CAD systems and engineering drawings with appropriate geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).

• Prepare well-written documentation, reports, and presentations for design reviews and proposals.

• Design and support test campaigns, both development and qualification/acceptance, for space hardware.

• Interact directly with customers to understand technical requirements, and translate them into technically robust solutions backed by data and analysis.

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.