Amazon
Propulsion Systems Engineer, Amazon Leo
$136K–$184K
REDMOND, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- REDMOND, WA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field.
- 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
Own system-level engineering for Amazon Leo’s electric propulsion subsystem, from requirements and interfaces through verification, testing, and on-orbit performance analysis.
What you'll do
- Derive and maintain subsystem requirements, technical baselines, budgets, interfaces, and requirements-to-verification traceability.
- Conduct propulsion analyses and trade studies; support hardware testing, risk mitigation, design reviews, and flight operations.
- Analyze production and on-orbit propulsion performance, including AI-assisted analysis, and support root-cause investigations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field.
- 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
- Experience developing, analyzing, or testing spacecraft or aerospace propulsion hardware.
- Experience with requirements, interface definitions, verification plans and test procedures; physics-based modeling; and scripting with Python, MATLAB, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in aerospace engineering, plasma physics, or a related discipline.
- Experience with electric propulsion systems, propulsion budgets, requirements traceability, test facilities, spacecraft interfaces, or flight-program risk management.
Pay
136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, MATLAB, Hall effect thrusters, ion engines, power processing units, FMECA
AI focus
Track propulsion performance using on-orbit and production data, including AI-assisted analysis.
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