Satellite GNC Engineer, Project Kuiper

Amazon • Redmond, WA

69d • $136,000 - $212,800

About The Position

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. This position is part of the Satellite Attitude Determination and Control team. You will design and analyze the control system and algorithms, support development of our flight hardware and software, help integrate the satellite in our labs, participate in flight operations, and see a constellation of satellites flow through the production line in the building next door.

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience.
• Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products.
• Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language.
• Experience with agile development.
• Experience building web based dashboards using common frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and analyze algorithms for estimation, flight control, and precise pointing using linear methods and simulation.
• Develop and apply models and simulations, with various levels of fidelity, of the satellite and our constellation.
• Component level environmental testing, functional and performance checkout, subsystem integration, satellite integration, and in space operations.
• Manage the spacecraft constellation as it grows and evolves.
• Continuously improve our ability to serve customers by maximizing payload operations time.
• Develop autonomy for Fault Detection and Isolation on board the spacecraft.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree