Amazon Flight Dynamics Operations Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

376531058

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.This position requires expertise in software systems development for operations applications and engineering expertise in multi-disciplinary environments. Satellite operations experience is preferred. The Kuiper Flight Dynamics Operations team supports the mission operations for the Kuiper LEO Constellation.Working with the Kuiper engineering team, you will:• Support software development efforts to improve the Kuiper Flight Dynamics System.
• Support transition from human operations-centric processes to automated workflow for flight dynamics tasks such as navigation and maneuver planning.
• Support novel solutions to manage the risk posed by conjunction traffic in Low Earth Orbit.
• Work closely with Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) engineers to manage on-orbit performance and develop flight dynamics operations process improvements.

- Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace or Mechanical engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science.
- Experience in operating and developing engineering tools
- Basic understanding of the flight dynamics engineering roles such as orbit analysis, trajectory calculation, orbit determination, and operations

- Experience in satellite operations
- Experience in ground systems development of satellite operations systems
- Experience in any of the operations roles in satellite navigation, conjunction risk assessment, and maneuver planning.
- Experience in cloud-based software systems development