Optical Network Engineer, Inter-satellite Link Avionics

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth's most customer centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in distributed systems and hardware design.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototyping, and characterization of hardware to support high-speed optical communication links.
• Work with vendors to qualify commercial, off-the-shelf components, drive development of custom components where needed, to achieve low-cost, light-weight, and reliable systems that meet performance requirements.
• Lead the effort to support design verification and qualification testing.
• Automate optical test plans and qualify optical modules.
• Work with stakeholders to troubleshoot, resolve issues, and deliver optical inter-satellite links.
• Analyze large volumes of data to identify gaps/risks and improve the design.

Requirements

• 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience.
• 4+ years of work experience on optical communication systems or components.
• 4+ years of experience with optical transceivers, IEEE standards, and optical transceiver MSAs.
• 1+ years of experience developing test scripts for optics validation and characterization.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, Electronics, Communication Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in high-speed characterization of devices, electrical probe stations, operation of high-speed and high-frequency test equipment, such as oscilloscopes, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and high-speed oscilloscopes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master or PhD Degree in Physics, Electronics, Optical Engineering, or Communication Engineering.
• In-depth knowledge of development of high-frequency electronics.
• Efficiency in documenting and communication.
• Ability to lead interdisciplinary discussions between Hardware, Reliability, and Software teams to define and drive scope and clarity of work, and reach optimum system-level trade-offs.
• Ability to provide thought leadership and key input on new initiatives as well as on programs underway.
• Knowledge of opto-electronics industry and component suppliers.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $136,000.00 - $184,000.00 USD annually.

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.