Mechanical Test Design Engineer - Spacecraft, Spacecraft Mechanical

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
We're looking for an outstanding Mechanical Engineer with a background in space vehicle test and integration. The ideal candidate has experience performing bottom up design and analysis for test fixtures, test facilities, and test flows.
Key job responsibilities

• Create test stand concepts, fabrication drawings, wiring schematics, and instrumentation lists
• Design and analyze structures, fluid systems, and mechanisms
• Supervise the integration of test stands including fabrication, mechanical assembly and data/control systems
• Defining instrumentation for test setup, analyzing responses and correlating with analysis/predictions
• Develop test plans for parts through development, qualification and acceptance testing.
• Defining test conditions and test methods
• Develop in-house testing facilities

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.
A day in the life
As a test engineer, you should have extensive knowledge of structural design as well as space rated moving mechanical assemblies. This is a hands-on role for a highly collaborative individual that combines technical, and analytical capabilities to enable all aspects of mechanical testing from development, to qualification, to high volume acceptance testing.

• Experience in Finite Element Analysis of primary and secondary structures/FEA capability – Ansys / NASTRAN (or equivalent)
• Experienced with LEO space environments and mitigations.
• Experience with common spacecraft subsystems: Power Systems (Solar Arrays, Batteries), Electric propulsion system integration, Secondary structures, Avionics assemblies, harnessing, Payload subsystems integration, Release mechanisms, Moving mechanical assemblies, LV Interfaces.
• Experience with structural materials and processes including metals, composites, bonded and bolted joints.
• Experience with building a test facility form the ground up
• CAD – Siemens NX

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $93,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.