Senior RF/Microwave Engineer - Satellite Systems

Amazon.com Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo Government seeks an experienced RF/Microwave Engineer to design RF and microwave circuit blocks across Ka, L, and S bands. You will lead RF board design, component selection, layout review, and test bring-up, collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers to meet goals.

You will prepare written reports and proposals, conduct trades, and support space hardware test campaigns. U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Experience with prototyping and implementation.
• 5+ years of analog or RF layout design experience.
• Experience with RF measurement equipment, including power meters, spectrum analyzers, vector signal generators, network analyzers, oscilloscopes.

Responsibilities

• Interact directly with customers to understand technical requirements, and translate them into technically robust solutions backed by data and analysis.
• Responsible for implementation of RF wireless system and physical layer performance of multiple wireless components.
• Responsible for designing RF and communications payloads on a commercial bus and terrestrial ground terminals.
• Identify top level customer requirements and ensure high quality and innovative designs are pursued.
• Develop RF link budget, frequency planning, filter requirements definition, and RF test validation plans.
• Perform RF design and layout trade studies for satellite RF and Microwave sub-systems in the Ka, L and S bands, contributing to overall system architecture across teams.

Skills

RF layout design

RF measurement equipment

Customer requirements translation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

ADS

HFSS

MO

SystemVue

Job description

Amazon Leo Government seeks an experienced RF/Microwave Engineer to design RF and microwave circuit blocks across Ka, L, and S bands. You will lead RF board design, component selection, layout review, and test bring-up, collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers to meet goals.

You will prepare written reports and proposals, conduct trades, and support space hardware test campaigns. U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance are required.