Sr. Microwave Hardware Design Engineer, Amazon Leo

As a Sr. Microwave Hardware Design Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to design innovative product solutions. You will work closely with colleagues throughout Leo’s inter-disciplinary team in order to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for designing microwave/RF subsystems for use in space. Must be able to work effectively cross-functionally with multiple disciplines. In this role you will:

• Decompose system level requirements into realizable hardware requirements.
• Design and develop a solution that meets these requirements.
• Design, develop, and optimize a Ka/V band radio hardware for use in space.
• Simulate and optimize RF circuits, perform schematic capture, and oversee PCB layout.
• Build up test bench for design verification.
• Evaluate and optimize design in the lab to demonstrate solution meets all requirements.
• Work with RF system, power, software, mechanical thermal, reliability and compliance teams to ensure solution integrates with overall platform requirements.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Will work cross-functionally on collaboration to fluently engage with diverse engineering disciplines, effectively advocate for RF system requirements, and ensure alignment for overall system success.
• Design of high-performance Ka-Band and V-band frequency converters, LNAs and SSPAs.
• Develop Microwave and millimeter wave RF hardware requirements.
• Works closely with the production test team to define DVT, Qualification and production test requirements
• Develop, designs, and test of high-power RF/microwave components, subsystems and systems.
• Derive RF HW specifications for the RF system and RF blocks/circuits
• Performs root cause analysis on products, technical problems, processes and documentation.
• Assess feasibility of various designs in support of architectural definition
• Participate in subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification, and signal characterization
• Evaluate and characterize new technology, prototypes and RF components
• Support manufacturing engineers on production testing of RF avionics components and systems
• Evaluates systems and directs design modifications.
• Troubleshoots and repairs circuits and fixtures.

Experience with RF measurement equipment, including: power meters, spectrum analyzers, vector signal generators, network analyzers, oscilloscopes

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in RF/Microwave design
• 7+ years of experience in RF / microwave hardware design to component level, such as power amps, LNAs, mixers, and block down-converters, block up-converters, and etc. for commercial or military communication receivers, transmitters and subsystems up to 50 GHz.
• In depth knowledge of radio architectures.
• Experience with RF/ microwave design expertise in Power, Low Noise and Driver Amplifier design for commercial or military communications receivers, transmitters and sub-systems up to 50 GHz.
• Experience with RF and EM simulation software.
• Experience with analog, digital and mixed mode circuit design and layout.
• Excellent math aptitude, written and communication skills., Master’s degree or PhD in electrical engineering and 10 years of industry experience in RF/microwave circuits or communication theory
• Experience performing analysis and simulation of communication systems including link budgets
• Thorough understanding of RF passive and active components and circuitry
• Knowledge of digital communication systems, spread spectrum, forward error correcting codes (FEC), single and multi-carrier techniques, modulation types such as PSK, APSK, QAM, OFDM
• Understanding of electromagnetic propagation and antenna systems
• RF/microwave design using ADS, HFSS, AWR Microwave Office
• Experience with the design and integration of RF systems consisting of radio transmitters and receivers, LNAs, PAs, couplers, filters, etc.
• Experience with RF test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers
• Comfortable communicating deeply technical topics to a wide variety of audiences
• Ability to lead projects across departments, create and maintain project schedules, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Working knowledge of space environments and the process to space qualify a communication flight unit.
• Familiarity with hybrid microelectronics for space applications and MIL-PRF-38534

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.