Amazon
Controls Engineer, Amazon Leo Optical Inter-Satellite Link
$136K–$184K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in a hardware-adjacent controls, test, or systems engineering role.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Supports development, verification, testing, and hardware integration of pointing, acquisition, and tracking systems for optical links across Amazon Leo satellites.
What you'll do
- Analyze flight and test data, correlate it with simulations, and support anomaly investigations and production root-cause analysis.
- Develop test vectors and verify PAT FPGA implementations against Simulink models, including MIL, SIL, and HIL activities.
- Support electrical engineering work including trade studies, board-level testing and troubleshooting, documentation, and production ramps.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
- 3+ years experience in a hardware-adjacent controls, test, or systems engineering role.
- Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink; experience reading schematics and understanding digital/analog signal interfaces.
- Experience with control-system fundamentals, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and analyzing test or flight data.
Nice to have
- Experience with ADC/DAC tradeoffs, analog/mixed-signal board design and troubleshooting, or production hardware root-cause analysis.
- Experience with Python, C, aerospace or defense environments, FPGA tools, lab instrumentation, or real-time platforms.
Pay
136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C, Git, Vivado/ModelSim, Speedgoat/dSPACE, SPI, I2C
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