Environmental Test Engineer, Space Simulation Lab

Description

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

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.

As an Environmental Test Engineer on the SSL team, you won't be one of many engineers maintaining a shared pool of equipment. You'll be the primary owner of an entire class of test equipment — Thermal, TVAC, Vibe, Shock, or HASS — accountable for keeping it running, driving its reliability upward, and building the processes that let the lab test at launch cadence. When something goes wrong at 2 AM, your name is on the escalation. When something needs to change, you own the engineering decision and the vendor conversation. When a technician learns the equipment, they learn it from you.

Key job responsibilities
Equipment Ownership
• Serve as primary owner for an assigned class of environmental test equipment (Thermal, TVAC, Vibe, Shock, or HASS), managing configurations, maintenance, calibration, and improvement projects.
• Provide technical leadership during troubleshooting events, driving issues from first response through root cause and corrective action.
• Manage relationships with 3rd-party equipment vendors (service, spares, upgrades, escalations).
Process Development
• Establish standardized test processes and work instructions that enable technicians to operate with minimal engineer supervision.
• Train and mentor technicians on equipment operation and troubleshooting; keep documentation accurate and current.
Rate Improvement
• Analyze test data to validate ability of test procedures to meet requirements.
• Identify and lead projects that increase throughput, reduce cycle time, and improve first-pass yield.
Automation Troubleshooting
• Read and triage simple errors in LabVIEW and Python code execution; clearly articulate failures to support teams for more complex issues.
• Apply understanding of control loops used in environmental test (thermal ramp control, vacuum/pressure control, shaker control) to diagnose equipment behavior.

A day in the life
This is a build job, not a maintain job. We're scaling SSL fast and we need an engineer who looks at tribal knowledge and turns it into standard work; who looks at a vendor's response time and decides it's not good enough; who can read a thermal ramp trace or a shaker response curve and tell you whether it's a tuning problem, a hardware problem, or a software problem. You will have autonomy, a direct line to leadership, and a tangible connection between the work you do this week and the hardware that leaves Earth next quarter. If you want your engineering decisions to show up in orbit — not just in a dashboard — come build this with us.

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of consumer electronics lab environments experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Experience in software QA testing including writing test plans, use cases, and issue reports
- Experience in a consumer electronics lab environment
- Experience in a Linux or Unix environment
- Experience working on a consumer hardware or software product

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience configuring, deploying, and testing software updates, including the ability to identify issues and escalate to development as appropriate
- Experience running user trials, beta, field testing or collecting customer feedback
- Experience working with hardware and software teams for setting up, testing, and troubleshooting prototype devices

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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, Kirkland - 39.47 - 69.08 USD hourly