RF Payload Engineer, Systems & Test, Amazon Leo

About the Role

As a Payload Engineer at Amazon Leo, Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network, you will play a crucial role in testing, verifying, and troubleshooting the Leo production constellation. Your mission is to ensure fast, reliable internet connectivity for customers in underserved areas, including households, schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies. You will collaborate with a diverse, interdisciplinary team to support in-orbit payload operations across all mission phases, bridging payload software development, testing, and mission operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep expertise in payload RF/comm hardware, software, and constellation operations to identify systemic issues, drive root-cause analysis, and coordinate fleet-wide resolutions and optimizations.
• Define and maintain payload operational processes, procedures, and runbooks, including on-station commissioning flows, exit criteria, and external dependencies.
• Identify and drive automation initiatives to reduce manual operational burden, improve response times, and enable team scalability as the constellation grows.
• Review and interpret test results, troubleshoot issues, perform root-cause analysis, and develop corrective actions for test failures and in-orbit anomalies.
• Support payload system-level integration, test, and verification, from hands-on lab integration to field testing and in-orbit operations.
• Collaborate with diverse technical teams (flight software, cloud software, modem, mission operations) to optimize system-level RF and network operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline with 6+ years of RF, satellite, or aerospace industry experience.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functionally across multi-disciplinary groups.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline with RF, satellite, or aerospace industry experience.
• Experience testing satellite payload RF hardware or related subsystems, mission operations, or payload in-orbit testing.
• Experience developing or maintaining operational runbooks, procedures, or standard operating processes.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for diagnosing complex on-orbit anomalies.
• Proficiency with scripting/automation (Python, Bash, or similar) for operational tooling.
• Experience with dashboard development (Grafana, Quicksight, SQL, or similar) or monitoring systems.
• Experience with satellite constellation operations at scale (fleet management, automation, monitoring).
• Experience working with AWS Services.

Pay

The base salary range for this position in Redmond, WA, is $136,000.00 - $184,000.00 USD annually. Final compensation includes sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, EAP, Mental Health Support), 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and more. Learn more at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Export Control Requirement: Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum due to export control laws and regulations.