Amazon Sr Power Electronics Engineer Kuiper Government Solutions KGS 

United States, California, Los Angeles 

211438435

Key job 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 circuits for power and delivery with filtering, voltage/current protection, and IR drop considerations.
- Strong technical background and work experience designing electronic circuits including switch mode power supplies (SMPS), buck/boost converter, linear regulators, AC/DC and DC/DC converters.
- Analyze designed circuits using software tools for performance and characterization including Power Integrity (PI) and Power Distribution Networks (PDN) 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.Security Clearance: This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance of TS/SCI.
A day in the life

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in hardware development across the full product life cycle (concept to production)
- 7+ years of electrical engineering work experience in Space, Aerospace/Defense, Automotive, and/or Communications fields or combination thereof
- 7+ years of experience with schematic and layout ECAD tools and with PCB design and debugging

- Master's or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline
- Experience with complex board designs, such as high-speed interconnects, high-reliability designs, avionics, vehicle control systems, and/or motor & actuator control electronics
- Experience in development and test of satellite bus systems and space/flight hardware
- Electronics design/qualification experience with radiation environments or radiation tolerant hardware
- Experience with rapid iteration prototyping and joint hardware/firmware development; partnering with software engineers to bring-up and test new hardware designs
- Experience with analysis to define the spacecraft electromagnetic environment including radiated and conducted emissions and susceptibility (RE/CE/RS/CS) to inform design and test of spacecraft
- Working knowledge of at least one programming language such as Python or C/C++
- Track record of successfully delivering compelling written reports and complete designs on time, to scope, with high quality
- High sense of ownership, urgency, and drive; resourceful, and able to deliver results with minimal direction
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience working with government agencies