Senior Battery Systems Engineer - Space Power & Verification

Amazon Inc.; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Leo, Amazon's LEO satellite battery team, seeks a Sr. Battery Systems Engineer to own battery requirements from design to production. You will connect system requirements, battery physics, modeling, and test results to define defensible specs and pass/fail criteria.

Export controls require U.S. citizenship or eligible status. You will collaborate across engineering disciplines to ensure safe, reliable, high‑performance battery systems for space applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Master’s or advanced degree in a related technical field.
• Experience developing battery requirements and verification criteria.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and document battery system requirements across electrical, thermal, performance, safety, reliability, lifetime, and environmental domains.
• Decompose system requirements into battery pack, module, BMS, cell, and test-level requirements.
• Translate requirements into measurable verification criteria, test parameters, pass/fail limits, and production acceptance limits.
• Establish engineering margins and review verification traceability.
• Collaborate with Systems, Battery, Electrical, Mechanical, Test, Manufacturing, Quality, Reliability, Software, and Modeling teams.

Skills

Battery systems

Lithium‑ion

SPC & optimization

Cross‑functional collab

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master’s or advanced degree

Tools

Modeling software

Monte Carlo methods

SPC software

Job description

Amazon Leo, Amazon's LEO satellite battery team, seeks a Sr. Battery Systems Engineer to own battery requirements from design to production. You will connect system requirements, battery physics, modeling, and test results to define defensible specs and pass/fail criteria.

Export controls require U.S. citizenship or eligible status. You will collaborate across engineering disciplines to ensure safe, reliable, high‑performance battery systems for space applications.