Thermal Design Engineer, Hardware Development Engineer II

Job description

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world. The mission of Amazon Leo’s Government (ALG) team is to leverage existing Amazon Leo technology and provide high speed, low latency, and secure satellite broadband services to the United States and our allied government customers. ALG is looking for a Thermal Design Engineer who combines superb technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right work done quickly and effectively. This person must have experience working in spacecraft design, producing top notch thermal analysis, testing support, and providing essential thermal related input and recommendations to vehicle architects and subsystem leads. Key job responsibilities • Detailed and comprehensive analysis of bus and payload subsystems, components and mechanisms. • Support extensive architectural trades with preliminary thermal analysis on spacecraft and subsystems for orbital operational conditions and vehicle control options. • Drive design optimizations for performance, mass, cost, in support of all system reliability (thermal) requirements through application of a range of thermal control hardware options. • Define and execute test setups for thermal cycling and TVAC tests for development and…