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Satellite Payload Hardware Engineer , Amazon Leo

Amazon$136K — $184K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
  • 4+ years of industry experience in PCBA design
  • 4+ years of experience using schematic tools like Mentor Graphics or Altium Designer
  • 3+ years of experience with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
  • Master's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead satellite and ground gateway gigabit modem design from concept through production
  • Design and optimize electronic sub-systems blocks
  • Create high-speed digital circuitry supporting SERDES protocols
  • Utilize cutting-edge ADC/DAC and FPGA technologies in designs
  • Optimize PCB stack-up for both performance and cost
  • Conduct board bring-up and complete test campaigns for subsystems
  • Support design transitions to production

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
  • Mental health support and employee assistance programs
Full Job Description
- Own the satellite and ground gateway gigabit modem design from concept through production

- Design and optimize different blocks of electronics sub-systems

- Design high-speed digital circuitry supporting various SERDES protocols in collaboration with various teams

- Design with the latest high speed ADC/DAC and FPGA technology

- Optimize PCB stack-up for performance and cost

- Complete board bring-up and perform test campaigns for different modules and subsystems

- Support the transition of the designs to production

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.

A day in the life

As a Satellite Payload Hardware Engineer, you will lead the design workstream on some of the most innovative, challenging, and exciting gateway systems high speed modems in industry. You will engage with an experienced team to conceive and design the gateway modems and delight customers with affordable, reliable, high bandwidth connectivity. You will work closely with Amazon LEO's various sub-teams and engage third party suppliers to drive product definition, design, optimization, implementation, and test. The Hardware Engineer will have a complete understanding of how their design changes impact downstream partners such as operations, supply chain, product management, and reliability.

About the team

The Gateway Modem team is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, validation, qualification, and new product introduction to manufacturing for all satellite and ground gateway assemblies. These systems will meet performance requirements defined by the RF/modem team as well as environmental and reliability requirements defined by the mechanical team. To this end, the gateway team collaborates closely with all the partner teams including silicon, power, mechanical, thermal, modem, RF/Coms system, and SW teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent

- 4+ years of industry experience in PCBA design

- 4+ years of experience in using schematic tool (Mentor Graphics Xpedition, Cadence OrCad, or Altium Designer)

- 3+ years of experience in using lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and multi-meter

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with PCB layout tools

- 3+ years of experience in high-speed digital design (SERDES, Ethernet, PCIe, etc...)

- -SI/PI experience.

- -SW/FW integration experience or scripting experience.

- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, San Diego - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Redmond - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually

About Amazon

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Amazon Careers

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