Amazon
Sr. RF Comms Systems Engineer, Amazon Leo
$137K–$186K
Austin, TX +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Redmond, WA
San Diego, CA - Experience
- 7+ years professional experience working in L1/L2 or beamforming.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or experience working in electrical engineering 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
Integrates, tests, and debugs RF, PHY/MAC, and beamforming systems for Amazon Leo satellite communications, including 3GPP conformance testing.
What you'll do
- Bring up, integrate, tune, and debug satellite radio systems; characterize performance and investigate system-level issues.
- Architect, document, and execute 3GPP testing for satellite-to-ground networks, coordinating test equipment and plans with vendors and development teams.
- Collaborate across RF, PHY, MAC, firmware, ASIC, software, and test teams on system integration and verification, including FPGA work.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or experience working in electrical engineering field.
- 7+ years professional experience working in L1/L2 or beamforming.
- Experience with RF lab equipment, bring-up, test and integration activities.
- Experience with verification and integration on FPGA.
Nice to have
- Masters/PhD with emphasis in wireless communication systems.
- Proficiency with modeling in MATLAB and/or C/C++; experience in test automation and scripting languages such as Python/Perl/Matlab.
Pay
137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually (base salary); 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
3GPP, Linux, Python, bash, MATLAB, C/C++, FPGA, Wireshark
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