Overview As an early-career Mechanical Engineer on Amazon Leo, you will help design, build, and test hardware for a large satellite constellation. You'll contribute across the full hardware lifecycle, collaborating with electrical, thermal, RF, and manufacturing teams to solve multidisciplinary problems. You'll shape concepts into flight-ready hardware, advancing manufacturability, reliability, and production scalability. This role offers hands-on ownership and meaningful impact on a cutting-edge space infrastructure.
Compensation / Benefits- health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parential leave
- RSUs and sign-on payments
- employee assistance programs
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
- Collaborate with technicians, machinists, manufacturing engineers, suppliers, and 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 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
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- Experience in engineering
- Experience in 3D CAD
- Experience in hardware design
- Experience communicating technical concepts and processes using clear, simple language and visuals
- clear communication
- problem solving
- collaboration across teams
- 3D CAD (Siemens NX)
- Product Lifecycle Management (Teamcenter)
- Engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis
