Senior Space & Radiation Effects Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools hospitals businesses and government agencies Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

As a Senior Radiation Effects Engineer on the Amazon Leo team you will be responsible for ensuring avionics and payload hardware performance across our satellite constellation through the challenging LEO radiation environment. You will perform analysis design guidance and testing at the component board unit and subsystem levels working with a vast array of satellite electronics to ensure radiation reliability.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder) or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities
Amazon seeks a Senior Radiation Effects Engineer to be part of a small team focused on reliability against radiation effects.
Candidate will define collect and analyze TID heavy ion and proton testing data to qualify components against space radiation and help build a database of electronic component test data
Candidate will help to determine system-level impact of radiation-induced failures
Candidate will be responsible for the qualification of a wide range of electronic components including microcontrollers memory devices FPGAs and power management hardware
Will work with an interdisciplinary team to offer guidance to electrical design engineers on the selection and proper utilization of radiation sensitive components
Lead root-cause analysis of on-orbit radiation events. Develop tools and dashboards to organize and visualize on-orbit events.
Develop processes for managing component and satellite hardware test results and documentation
Develop testing and reporting standards for component and flight PCBA radiation tests
Work with supply chain and component reliability teams to refine preferred components across programs
Review PCN changes to ensure maintenance of radiation qualification status

About the team
At Amazon we are working to build the worlds most advanced low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to deliver fast affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the globe. Project Kuiper (Amazon Leo) will provide connectivity for tens of millions of customers who lack reliable internet access. This is an ambitious long-term program that combines Amazons customer obsession with latest technology in aerospace engineering.

- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field or experience working in electrical engineering field
- 3 years of experience in spaceflight avionics development parts selection and radiation test
- 3 years System design and component qualification experience with radiation environments and radiation tolerant hardware
- Demonstrated understanding of the impact of SEE and TID effects on electronic systems.
- Experience with one or more standard radiation environment modeling tools including but not limited to IRENE OMERE SIRE2 SPENVIS OLTARIS CREME96 SAPPHIRE ESP or PSYCHIC.

- Masters degree or above in electrical engineering computer science mathematics or physics
- PhD in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Mathematics or a related technical field
- Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability
- Experience with one or more radiation transport codes including but not limited to NOVICE FASTRAD SHIELDOSE2 GEANT4 or MCNP.
- Experience with NASA Defense or Commercial Space programs.
- Knowledge of any of the following: Python LabView AI-vibe coding.
- Experience collaborating with reliability team with vehicle-level reliability models.
- Knowledge of AWS tools such as S3 and DynamoDB.
- Proficiency with hardware blueprints/schematics and circuit functions based on designs.
- Proficiency with avionics hardware spanning integrated circuits PCBA boards sensors/transducers functional troubleshooting and defect detection

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Redmond - 159200.00 - 215300.00 USD annually