Sr. Hardware Design Engineer, LEO KMM FPGA

Amazon • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

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

Come work at Amazon!

As a Sr. Hardware Design Engineer, you will engage with an experienced
cross-disciplinary team to design innovative product solutions. You will work
closely with colleagues throughout Leo's inter-disciplinary team in order to
drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be
responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced
environment.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for designing RF subsystems for
use in space. Must be able to work effectively cross-functionally with multiple
disciplines.
In this role you will:
• Decompose system level requirements into realizable hardware requirements.
• Design and develop a solution that meets these requirements.
• Simulate and optimize RF circuits, perform schematic capture, and oversee PCB
layout.
• Build up test bench for design verification.
• Evaluate and optimize design in the lab to demonstrate solution meets all
requirements.
• Work with RF system, power, software, mechanical thermal, reliability and
compliance teams to ensure solution integrates with overall platform
requirements.

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.

Requirements

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability
• Experience in motherboard design, PCB design including schematic capture, stackup and circuit board layout
• 5+ years of experience in firmware integration with factory software

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience with the project management of technical projects

Responsibilities

• Will work cross-functionally on collaboration to fluently engage with diverse engineering disciplines, effectively advocate for hardware system requirements, board bring up , pcba assembly, and ensure alignment for overall system success.
• Works closely with the production test team to define DVT, Qualification and production test requirements
• Develop, designs, and test of ASIC and subsystems and systems.
• Derive HW specifications for the KMM system
• Performs root cause analysis on products, technical problems, processes and documentation.
• Assess feasibility of various designs in support of architectural definition
• Participate in subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification, and signal characterization
• Evaluate and characterize new technology, prototypes and RF components
• Support manufacturing engineers on production testing of RF avionics components and systems
• Evaluates systems and directs design modifications.
• Troubleshoots and repairs circuits and fixtures.

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