Sr. Communication Sys Engineer, Modeling and Simulation

Job description

Amazon Leo is a low Earth orbit satellite constellation providing low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. The mission of Amazon Leo for Government is to leverage Leo and provide high speed, low latency, and secure satellite services to United States and allied government customers. As a Modeling and Simulation Systems Engineer supporting that mission, this role is primarily responsible for assessing and analyzing how both Leo's capabilities and Leo products built for government perform against government use cases, and for producing the analyses that underpin government contract work.

You will evaluate system and network performance from the capacity, coverage, latency, and availability point of view to determine how Leo delivers the operational outcome the customer mission needs. It is a unique opportunity to innovate and define groundbreaking wireless technology with few legacy constraints.

Key job responsibilities

• Own system-level modeling, simulation, and analysis for government mission scenarios and constellation designs, across coverage, capacity, latency, and availability, from concept trades through customer deliverables

Perform mission engineering

• translate customer mission objectives into scenarios and measures of effectiveness, develop design reference missions and CONOPS, and model whether the end-to-end system delivers the required operational outcome
• Apply orbital mechanics, including orbit and constellation geometry, reference frames, revisit and access behavior, and station-keeping and conjunction considerations, as the foundation of coverage, access, and contact analyses
• Design and evaluate resource scheduling and allocation approaches, heuristic or solver-based, for contact scheduling, satellite beam assignment, and prioritization under power, thermal, and spectrum constraints
• Evaluate complex multi-disciplinary trades involving RF bandwidth and network resource allocation to customers, optimizing customer experience against cost, power, and spectrum, including constellation design and link selection trades
• Build and/or utilize RF and optical link budgets and combine them with orbital constellation dynamics to model time-varying system capacity, latency, and availability
• Model inter-satellite geometry and access, including link availability windows, contact scheduling, and handover behavior
• Extend existing simulation code and tools, and create new simulation models representative of the target system (primarily MATLAB, also C++ / Python), designing around hardware and software capabilities and constraints to support a dynamic network topology
• Prepare and present technical content for government customers and program reviews, including analysis packages, visualizations, briefings, and proposal material
• Account for self-interference and interference with other space and terrestrial communication systems in coverage and capacity analyses

Export Control

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance of TS/SCI.