Senior Space Electronics Engineer

KGS LLC; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo seeks a Sr Electrical Engineer to lead design and analysis of satellite and ground system electronics, including analog/digital power, FPGA, and memory interfaces. You will perform circuit design, SI/PI analysis, layout reviews, and bring-up tests, and collaborate across teams to meet customer goals.

The role requires delivering clear reports, supporting test campaigns for space hardware, and guiding sub-teams of engineers. U.S. citizenship and TS/SCI clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures.

Responsibilities

• Interact directly with customers to understand technical requirements, and translate them into technically robust solutions backed by data and analysis.
• Responsible for electrical circuit design (including digital and analog power) 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, Digital Design, Mixed‑Signal ADC/DAC, Processors, FPGA, MCU, SoC, Memory, Transceivers, Clock generation and distribution.
• Analyze designed circuits using software tools for performance and characterization including Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) on fabricated Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designs.
• Identify top level customer requirements and ensure high quality and innovative designs are pursued.
• Perform electrical design and layout trade studies for electrical and power sub‑systems contributing to overall system architecture including inputs and requirements from cross discipline teams.
• Facilitate cost trades on multiple parallel configurations for cost/manufacturability vs design uncertainty
• Deliver well‑written documentation, reports, and presentations for technical design reviews and as part of proposal efforts.
• Design and support test campaigns, both development and qualification/acceptance, for space hardware.

Skills

Electrical circuit design

Signal Integrity

Power Integrity

FPGA

SoC

Memory

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Amazon Leo seeks a Sr Electrical Engineer to lead design and analysis of satellite and ground system electronics, including analog/digital power, FPGA, and memory interfaces. You will perform circuit design, SI/PI analysis, layout reviews, and bring-up tests, and collaborate across teams to meet customer goals.

The role requires delivering clear reports, supporting test campaigns for space hardware, and guiding sub-teams of engineers. U.S. citizenship and TS/SCI clearance are required.