Sr. Hardware Design Engineer, Leo KMM FPGA

As a Sr. 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 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.

• 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 hardware system requirements, board bring up , pcba assembly, and ensure alignment for overall system success.

• Works closely with the production test team to define DVT, Qualification and production test requirements

• Develop, designs, and test of ASIC and subsystems and systems.

• Derive HW specifications for the KMM system

• 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

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

• Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability

• Experience in motherboard design, PCB design including schematic capture, stackup and circuit board layout

• 5+ years of experience in firmware integration with factory software

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production

• Experience with the project management of technical projects

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, CA, San Diego - 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Redmond - 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually

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