Sr. Component Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

23h

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and 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.

You'll protect mission integrity daily. Every decision you make today flies on orbit tomorrow. You own PCN dispositions — assessing radiation risk, supply continuity, and program impact, driving cross-functional closure or making the call yourself. You enforce compliance standards and close qualification gaps before they reach orbit. You set component strategy across design, quality, and supply chain — and you raise the technical bar for the engineers around you. You develop the next generation of component engineers. Your work directly enables Amazon's vision of global connectivity from space. Non-serviceable. Non-negotiable. Built to last.

The Component Engineering team ensures mission success for Amazon's LEO satellite constellation. We manage every electrical component from selection through end-of-life, ensuring parts withstand space conditions—radiation, thermal cycling, and vacuum.
We maintain Leo's approved component library. We drive qualification processes. We solve complex obsolescence challenges. We bridge design ambition and manufacturing reality, partnering across Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing.

Our rigorous evaluation, testing, and lifecycle management enable innovation while protecting mission integrity. We ensure Amazon's global connectivity vision is built on proven, reliable components that perform flawlessly in space's harshest environment. Building the future of space infrastructure, one component at a time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years working as a Component Engineer in space, aerospace, industrial, automotive, or other high-tech industry
• Experience working with and maintaining an eCAD library
• Expertise with Product Lifetime Management (PLM) tools.
• Demonstrated ability to influence with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience leading component qualification programs for space or aerospace applications
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving team capability growth
• Experience developing and implementing component engineering processes at program or organizational scale

Nice To Haves

• Experience creating qualification plans and leading obsolescence analyses for electronic components
• Experience on obsolescence analyses and implementing mitigation strategies
• Demonstrated ability of developing component qualification plans and test strategies
• Knowledge of radiation effects on electronics and component derating practices
• Demonstrated ability of coordinating work streams amongst multiple teams such a reliability, quality, and engineering
• Experience presenting technical risk assessments to program leadership or customers

Responsibilities

• Establish and advance the Component Engineering technical vision, serving as a senior technical authority for Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing teams
• Collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams to lead Component Failure Analysis investigations and drive systemic Corrective Actions that prevent recurrence
• Define, govern, and continuously improve Component Engineering methods, processes, and procedures at program scale
• Apply senior-level expertise across Electrical Component Lifecycle Management, collaborating with the CE team to support parts qualification, PCN disposition, and component selection decisions.
• Drive strategic expansion and governance of the approved component library through rigorous research priorities
• Establish and enforce requirements compliance standards for Electrical Component Requests
• Lead alternate component research to optimize satellite designs and reduce supply chain risk
• Drive equivalency research strategy to expand and diversify component options
• Own BOM scrub methodology and provide final technical authority on electrical schematics and layouts
• Drive alignment across design, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain leadership on component strategy
• Lead component engineering contributions to current production and next-generation satellite development programs

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level