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Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

Within Amazon Leo, Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) is a multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to addressing the needs of targeted government, enterprise, and international customers for both space-based and terrestrial applications.

As an ALG Mission Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end operational health and performance of spacecraft for ALG's targeted customers. You will work closely with the Amazon Leo Mission Operations team, leveraging their expertise and infrastructure and adapting as needed to meet unique customer requirements. You will also partner with Ground Software, Flight Software, and Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) teams to develop highly automated command and control interfaces, telemetry monitoring interfaces, and operational procedure verification tools that enhance mission operations efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

Key job responsibilities

• Plan, execute, and monitor spacecraft operations across all mission phases including launch and early orbit phase (LEOP) operations, bus and payload commissioning, nominal operations, contingency response, decommissioning and end-of-life disposal
• Develop and maintain comprehensive Concept Of Operations (CONOPS) knowledge of the spacecraft bus and all subsystems and payloads, including their interactions, constraints, and failure modes
• Design, plan, and participate in mission rehearsals
• Perform both on-console and back office support of spacecraft health assessment, telemetry analysis, and anomaly investigation
• Design, develop, and maintain operational procedures, automation tools, and software utilities to support mission operations workflows
• Conduct testing and validation in hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) environments to verify operational procedures, flight software updates, and command sequences prior to on-orbit execution
• Collaborate with subsystem subject matter experts, flight software developers, and ground systems engineers to resolve on-orbit issues and improve operation
• Participate in on-call operations rotation and support anomaly resolution activities as needed
• Contribute to the improvement of ground system tools, automated testing of operational procedures, and CI/CD pipelines

Security Clearance : 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.

About the team
Amazon Leo For Government (ALG) Engineering collaborates closely with other Amazon Leo teams to leverage the constellation in providing seamless and efficient communication capabilities to meet the needs of our targeted customers.

The Systems Engineering, Integration, Test, and Manufacturing (SEIT|MFG) team under ALG Engineering plays a vital role in the entire life cycle of an engineering solution for our targeted customers, including architecture development, requirements and interface definition, assembly, integration, and test (AI&T), manufacturing, and post-delivery operations.