Senior Electrical Engineer, Interconnected Systems, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Amazon Leo 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. 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. We are hiring for an experienced Electrical Engineer responsible for ensuring electrical integrity across spacecraft interconnected systems, with a primary focus on harnessing and a secondary support role for electromechanical assemblies. This candidate will own the development, validation, and enforcement of harness design standards to mitigate issues such as noise, crosstalk, and unintended behavior.

Requirements

• BS degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans, functional test procedures, and root cause investigations
• 5+ years of experience in design or systems architecture role working with wire harnesses and related test systems.
• Experience with setup, control and automation of lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, electronic loads, power supplies, network analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, etc.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience in requirements definition and derivation using modelling, simulation and other analysis tools.
• Experience in spacecraft or high-reliability electronics environments
• Experience with harness design and testing methods (DWV, IR, NEXT, FEXT, TDR, VSWR, etc.) for complex systems
• Experience with ECAD software KiCad, Altium, Expedition, and/or Mentor Graphics
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-461, IPC/WHMA-A-620, or similar EMI and harnessing standards
• Strong cross-functional communication skills with avionics, systems, test, and harness manufacturing teams

Responsibilities

• Electrical Integrity Ownership: Lead analysis and mitigation strategies for signal degradation, transient susceptibility, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in harnesses and electromechanical systems.
• Grounding & Shielding Strategy: Define and validate grounding schemes (single-point, multi-point, hybrid) for test systems and shielding approaches for sensitive signal lines.
• Harness Design Standards: Specify technical requirements for: Shielded vs unshielded cable use Twisted pair implementation Low speed, high speed, and RF signals Separation and routing guidelines for mixed-signal harnessing
• Design Review Participation: Partner with flight and test engineering teams during early design phases to influence harness design and interconnects to ensure electrical signal integrity.
• Failure Investigations: Serve as the go-to owner for root cause analysis (RCA) of harness anomalies relating to electrical integrity, test harness and verification anomalies, and electromechanical test system.
• Documentation & Compliance: Develop interface control documents (ICDs), block interconnect diagrams (BIDs), electrical schematics, test harnessing specifications, and a signal integrity standards library.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees