Mechanical Engineer, Satellite Hardware

About the Role

Amazon Leo is seeking early-career mechanical engineers to design, build, test, and deliver hardware for a large-scale satellite constellation. This role is intended for engineers with a strong foundation in mechanical engineering fundamentals who are eager to develop broad spacecraft hardware experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design mechanical hardware, assemblies, fixtures, or test equipment using engineering fundamentals and sound design practices.
• Create and release 3D models, drawings, specifications, and other engineering documentation.
• Perform engineering analysis and calculations to support design decisions and verify performance.
• Work directly with technicians, machinists, manufacturing engineers, suppliers, and other partners to build and evaluate hardware.
• Develop and execute engineering tests to characterize hardware, validate designs, and investigate failures.
• Participate in design reviews and communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to multidisciplinary teams.
• Apply Design for Manufacturing and Assembly principles to improve hardware manufacturability, reliability, cost, and production scalability.
• Troubleshoot hardware issues using data, testing, and first-principles engineering.
• Support hardware from early prototype development through qualification, production, and flight.
• Develop increasing technical ownership of hardware and engineering decisions as experience grows.

About The Team

The Leo Mechanical Engineering organization designs, develops, tests, and industrializes the hardware that enables the satellite constellation. Teams span spacecraft structures and integration, avionics packaging, harnessing, solar arrays, mechanisms, test development, and manufacturing process development. Engineers work across disciplines and throughout the full product lifecycle, from early concepts and prototypes through qualification, production, launch, and on-orbit operation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong foundation in mechanical engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to move comfortably between analysis, design, hardware, and data.
• Experience with CAD (e.g., 3D models, drawings).
• Experience with engineering analysis and calculations.
• Experience with engineering tests.
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturing and Assembly principles.

Potential areas of work, depending on background, interests, and business needs, include:

• Spacecraft structures
• Avionics packaging
• Harnessing
• Solar arrays
• Mechanisms
• Test development
• Manufacturing process development

Qualifications

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 due to applicable export control laws and regulations.