Amazon
Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer, Amazon Leo
$151K–$205K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of spacecraft or aerospace systems 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 electric propulsion, attitude control, and flight dynamics across multiple Amazon Leo satellite configurations, from requirements and interfaces through verification and on-orbit operations.
What you'll do
- Manage requirements, technical baselines, budgets, margins, and cross-disciplinary trade studies.
- Define subsystem interfaces and establish hardware/software verification, testing, and fault-management strategies.
- Set technical performance measures and lead systems through design and readiness reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field.
- 7+ years of spacecraft or aerospace systems engineering experience.
- Experience with spacecraft attitude determination and control; system-level requirements; hardware/software subsystem interfaces; and test strategy.
- Experience with physics-based modeling and analysis of complex systems.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in a related discipline; depth in electric propulsion, attitude control, or satellite flight dynamics.
- Experience with requirements and configuration management, scripting, technical team leadership, or on-orbit operations.
Pay
151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Jama, DOORS, Systems Modeling Language (SysML), Python, MATLAB
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