Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Development Engineer III

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 Senior Mechanical Engineer who combines superb technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to perform quality work. The ideal candidate would have experience working in spacecraft design, preferably including opto-mechanical and electronic subsystems. The Senior Mechanical Engineer will have a background in space based and ground based mechanical design. The ideal candidate has experience making major optimization trades for payloads and system architectures. This is a position that combines superb technical and analytical capabilities to convert trade studies to a space qualified payload, while meeting cross discipline requirements. The candidate will focus on the specific needs of the customer and be able to conduct or direct design solutions to meet the customer’s goals. 10037 Key job responsibilities • Perform mechanical design and layout trade studies for satellite payloads or structures,…