RF System Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $151,200–$204,600 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · RF System Engineer, Amazon Leo

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As a Senior RF Systems Analysis and Design Engineer at Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC, you will lead the end-to-end modeling and performance analysis of complex satellite links and RF subsystem design, collaborating closely with phased array, RF communications, EMC, and calibration teams. Your daily tasks include developing system-level link models, performing digital phased array architecture simulations, defining hardware requirements, optimizing RF systems for global deployment scenarios, building reusable analysis tools in Python or Matlab, and designing measurement campaigns to validate model accuracy. You will also mentor junior engineers and support architecture reviews with data visualizations. This role requires expertise in analytical modeling, software development, and real-world hardware engagement to ensure stringent performance targets are met at scale within the Leo satellite program.

Skills

Python Matlab C++ AWS Linux Unix 3GPP CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL

What you'll do

Develop and maintain end-to-end RF system and link models for satellite links.
Perform system-level simulations of digital phased array architectures and correlate with measurements.
Define and flow down performance requirements to hardware, antenna, and firmware teams.
Optimize the RF system for throughput, coverage, power, and availability across scenarios.
Build reusable analysis tools and libraries for standardizing link analysis across the organization.

What we're looking for

Develop and maintain end-to-end RF system and link models including budgets and impairment modeling.
Perform simulations of digital phased array architectures and correlate with lab measurements.
Define and flow down system performance requirements to hardware teams.
Optimize the RF system for throughput, coverage, power, and availability across scenarios.
Build reusable analysis tools and libraries for standardized link analysis.
Collaborate with test and validation teams to design measurement campaigns.

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