Senior Power Electronics Engineer — Space & Satellite Systems

Amazon; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo Government (ALG) seeks a Sr Power Electronics Engineer to lead high‑assurance power electronics design for satellite and ground systems. You will drive schematic design, component selection, simulations, and layout reviews across teams, delivering data‑driven, robust solutions that meet customer requirements.

The role requires extensive experience in space hardware, strong PI/PDN analysis skills, and a track record of leading sub‑teams. U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures.
• Power electronics design and analysis experience.
• 7+ years of hardware development across the full product life cycle (concept to production).
• 7+ years of electrical engineering work experience in Space, Aerospace/Defense, Automotive, and/or Communications fields or combination thereof.
• 7+ years of experience with schematic and layout ECAD tools and with PCB design and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Interact directly with customers to understand technical requirements, and translate them into technically robust solutions backed by data and analysis.
• Responsible for electrical power circuit design for hosting sensitive RF and communications payloads including processing, memory, and communication buses.
• Strong technical background and work experience designing electronic circuits including Analog Power circuits with filtering, voltage/current protection, and IR drop considerations.
• Experience designing isolated and non-isolated power conversion circuits with multiple energy storage topologies.
• Strong background in switch‑mode power supplies (SMPS), buck/boost converters, linear regulators, AC/DC and DC/DC converters.
• Design using various DC/DC converter topologies including buck, boost, flyback, current‑mode, voltage‑mode and feedback mechanisms.
• Analyze designed circuits using Power Integrity (PI) and Power Distribution Networks (PDN) on PCB designs.
• Identify top level customer requirements and ensure high quality and innovative designs.
• Perform electrical design and layout trade studies for electrical and power sub-systems contributing to overall architecture.
• Facilitate cost trades on multiple configurations for cost/manufacturability vs design uncertainty.
• Deliver well‑written documentation, reports, and presentations for technical design reviews and proposals.
• Design and support test campaigns, development and qualification/acceptance, for space hardware.

Skills

Power electronics

Schematic & PCB design

PI/PDN analysis

System-level design

Space/Aerospace experience

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

ECAD tools

PCB design tools

Job description

Amazon Leo Government (ALG) seeks a Sr Power Electronics Engineer to lead high‑assurance power electronics design for satellite and ground systems. You will drive schematic design, component selection, simulations, and layout reviews across teams, delivering data‑driven, robust solutions that meet customer requirements.

The role requires extensive experience in space hardware, strong PI/PDN analysis skills, and a track record of leading sub‑teams. U.S.