Amazon Sr HW Systems Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington 

87943980

As the Gateway Modem Systems Engineer, you will take the lead inside the RF Hardware team to define, design, and deliver modem system level engineering requirements. This will require cross-functional coordination with hardware, software, firmware, and CommSys teams to deliver solutions that can be realized for flight hardware.In this role you will:
• Coordinate with ASIC, antenna, comm systems, & software teams to help define and drive a state of the art road map for high throughput satellite communication links
• Own Modem requirements and work with communication systems team find impact of non-compliant requirements.
• Develop modem architectures & work through design trades between LRUs as needed
• Coordinate closely with spacecraft & ground systems integration teams to specify, verify, & validate LRU and system level specifications.
• Debug & resolve inter-system interactions encompassing diverse problem domains including software, power distribution, & manufacturing.Export Control Requirement:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, or related discipline, or 7+ years of relevant experience
- Experience in hardware/PHY design of modem boards, ASICs, SiP, or SOICs
- Experience with FPGA or ASIC-based software defined radios
- Solid understanding of digital communication systems theory including: modulation types, FEC, spectral efficiency, bit error rate, SNR, link budgets, and spread spectrum
- Solid understanding of communication system components such as modems, ADC/DACs, frequency converters, filters, LNAs, SSPAs, and antennas
- Experience with high speed digital serial bus such as SERDES, JESD204.x, Interlaken, etc
- Familiarity with PHY layer and MAC layer embedded software
- Direct design experience with RF/Microwave hardware

- Understanding of radio technologies and how they operate inside of a digital communications system.
- Understanding of terminology & fundamentals of diverse disciplines such as software, firmware, and traditional EE designs.
- Understand clocking requirements, including phase noise, synchronization, and jitter.
- Experienced with common RF test equipment in the lab.
- experience with space hardware and space qualification
- Experience with Linux embedded software/firmware and Python
- Understand RF hardware and related impairments that affect link performance and how to address them.
- Experience with non-linear components and time-varying and fading communication channels.
- Experience working in a cross-functional team that includes disciplines such as mechanical engineering, thermal, reliability, software, and program management.