[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Amazon jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Amazon · Redmond, WA # Propulsion Systems Engineer, Amazon Leo US, WA, Redmond Operations Listed on Amazon’s official careers site. Posted October 1, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10567031/propulsion-systems-engineer-amazon-leo) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Amazon](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) / Propulsion Systems Engineer, Amazon Leo ## Job description Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo serves people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. Amazon Leo's Propulsion team designs, tests, and builds its own propulsion systems. As a systems engineer within the team, you will own the system-level engineering of the electric propulsion subsystem that raises, maintains, and safely deorbits every Amazon Leo satellite. You will connect thruster physics to spacecraft and constellation needs: turning mission and concept-of-operations needs into clear requirements, keeping the propulsion baseline and budgets current, defining interfaces with flight software and the rest of the spacecraft, and ensuring what we design is what we verify. Alongside that systems role, you will build hands-on electric propulsion expertise, working with thrusters, power processing units, and feed systems together with our design, test, and flight operations engineers. This role is roughly 70% systems engineering and 30% propulsion hardware development. It suits an engineer who enjoys both the analysis and the hardware, and who wants to see their work fly on thousands of spacecraft. ### 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. ### Key job responsibilities - Derive, write, and maintain propulsion subsystem requirements from mission, spacecraft, and regulatory needs (orbit raising, station keeping, collision avoidance, deorbit), and manage flow-down to components - Maintain the propulsion technical baseline and change control across current and next-generation designs - Own propulsion budgets and margins (delivered total impulse, propellant, power, mass, lifetime) and assess the impact of design, schedule, and operational changes at constellation scale - Define and maintain interfaces between propulsion and flight software, GNC, power, avionics, thermal, and structures, including software interface control documents and command and telemetry definitions - Deliver technical analyses and trade studies for current and next-generation propulsion architectures, and drive them to documented decisions - Define test requirements and maintain requirements-to-verification traceability; partner with test engineers on hardware-in-the-loop, hot fire, and qualification campaigns - Contribute to FMECA, fault management, and risk assessments, and drive technical mitigations to propulsion system risks - Prepare and present material for design reviews and support readiness reviews with suppliers and manufacturing partners - Build hands-on electric propulsion expertise through test support, data analysis, and hardware troubleshooting on thrusters, power processing units, and feed systems - Support propulsion concepts of operations (CONOPS) and in-flight response procedures for off-nominal scenarios, and support flight operations as needed - Track propulsion system performance using on-orbit and production data, including AI-assisted analysis, and support root cause investigations through closure - Work cross-functionally with experts in plasma physics, mechanical design, avionics, flight software, flight dynamics, and test across the full product lifecycle ### A day in the life You might start the morning reviewing a proposed design change and assessing its impact on the propellant budget and flight software interfaces. Midday you work with test engineers to define acceptance criteria for an upcoming hot fire, then spend the afternoon in a trade study on the next-generation thruster, or digging through on-orbit telemetry to understand an unexpected performance trend. You will work closely with propulsion design, GNC, flight software, flight dynamics, test, and supplier teams ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 1, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 17 days - Location: US, WA, Redmond[Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10567031/propulsion-systems-engineer-amazon-leo) ## More jobs at Amazon ### [ASIC Engineer Early Career - 2027, Project Leo](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/14f933189515141b14fa/) US, WA, Redmond ### [Aerospace Hardware Development Engineer, LEO](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/c8697ee12cbef96b127b/) US, WA, Redmond ### [Antenna & RF Engineer, Amazon Leo](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/dbdc06169433b8675f96/) US, WA, Redmond ### [Antenna & RF Engineer, Amazon Leo Antenna Development](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/3989c0345bbde3c8adce/) US, WA, Redmond ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [SSNA Propulsion Plant Electrical Systems Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/general-dynamics/jobs/b776191b78378de54043/) General Dynamics · Groton, CT, US ### [Propulsion Plant and Ship Systems VIRGINIA - 2027 Engineering Summer Internship](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/general-dynamics/jobs/54f3c0565692b3269e1e/) General Dynamics · Groton, CT, US ### [Propulsion Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/4d3d9ab5ce2866c963a6/) Lockheed Martin · Littleton, CO ### [Propulsion Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/8e7144ab4e0a56f8c2b4/) Lockheed Martin · Orlando, FL ### [Sr Staff Engineer Propulsion](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/northrop-grumman/jobs/ec80a0a8c2df03fc96ef/) Northrop Grumman · United States-Utah-Clearfield [Jobs in Redmond, WA](/locations/us/wa/redmond/)[Jobs in Washington](/locations/us-wa/)[Operations jobs](/functions/operations/) OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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