Senior Satellite Test Engineer — Spacecraft Validation

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 215,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a Senior Satellite Test Engineer in Redmond, WA to architect test infrastructure and guide satellites from build through functional and spacecraft validation. You will define test requirements, develop plans, and run complex campaigns to ensure flight-ready spacecraft.

You will collaborate across avionics, payload, and software teams, develop automated test sequences in Python, and drive innovative hardware/process improvements for

Qualifications

• Experience developing test strategies and plans for complex hardware/software systems or systems of systems.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics or physics.
• 5+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience.
• 5+ years in a development environment.
• 5+ years experience developing and executing test plans for complex aerospace, automotive or consumer electronics systems.
• 2+ years of scripting or programming experience (Python, MATLAB, C).

Responsibilities

• Develop, augment, and support testing of components, from subsystems to the full spacecraft to determine suitability for flight.
• Lead the definition and implementation of organization wide test strategies to mitigate product risks to stakeholders.
• Work with avionics, payload and software teams to gather requirements, design test plans, determine applicable test cases, and prepare for test execution.
• Own vehicle level test campaigns and collaborate with responsible engineers, manufacturing engineers, software developers, tooling teams and ground support teams to deliver a thoroughly tested spacecraft ready for launch.
• Communicate fluidly across a variety of teams to identify product risks and how they will be addressed to ensure mission success.
• Develop complex test automation sequences using scripting languages such as Python.
• Develop innovative hardware and processes to optimize and improve testing capabilities.
• Design, execute, and analyze RF/payload testing for satellite vehicle-level campaigns, including link budget validation, and RF performance characterization

Skills

Test strategy development

Hardware validation experience

Development environment experience

Aerospace/consumer electronics testing

Programming scripting (Python/MATLAB/C

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics

Tools

Python

MATLAB

C

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a Senior Satellite Test Engineer in Redmond, WA to architect test infrastructure and guide satellites from build through functional and spacecraft validation. You will define test requirements, develop plans, and run complex campaigns to ensure flight-ready spacecraft.

You will collaborate across avionics, payload, and software teams, develop automated test sequences in Python, and drive innovative hardware/process improvements for