Satellite Hardware Engineer (Early-Career)

Amazon Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking early-career mechanical engineers to design, build, test, and deliver hardware for a large-scale satellite constellation. You will work across spacecraft structures, harnessing, solar arrays, and test development, collaborating with electrical, thermal, reliability, and manufacturing teams.

Ideal candidates have a strong foundation in mechanical engineering fundamentals, curiosity about how things work, and a willingness to develop broad

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
• Experience in 3D CAD
• Experience communicating technical concepts and processes using clear, simple language and visuals

Responsibilities

• Design mechanical hardware, assemblies, fixtures, or test equipment using engineering fundamentals and sound design practices.
• Create and release 3D models, drawings, specifications, and other engineering documentation.
• Perform engineering analysis and calculations to support design decisions and verify performance.
• Work directly with technicians, machinists, manufacturing engineers, suppliers, and other partners to build and evaluate hardware.
• Develop and execute engineering tests to characterize hardware, validate designs, and investigate failures.
• Participate in design reviews and communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to multidisciplinary teams.
• Apply Design for Manufacturing and Assembly principles to improve hardware manufacturability, reliability, cost, and production scalability.
• Troubleshoot hardware issues using data, testing, and first-principles engineering.
• Support hardware from early prototype development through qualification, production, and flight.
• Develop increasing technical ownership of hardware and engineering decisions as experience grows.

Skills

Hardware design

3D CAD

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering / related field

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking early-career mechanical engineers to design, build, test, and deliver hardware for a large-scale satellite constellation. You will work across spacecraft structures, harnessing, solar arrays, and test development, collaborating with electrical, thermal, reliability, and manufacturing teams.

Ideal candidates have a strong foundation in mechanical engineering fundamentals, curiosity about how things work, and a willingness to develop broad