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Amazon Leo jobs
Amazon Leo is the satellite broadband network Amazon has been building under the name Project Kuiper: thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, the factory that builds them, launch processing in Florida, ground gateways and the antennas customers install. Its openings are mostly hardware and software engineering, with program management, operations and business roles beside them, and most of them sit around Redmond, Bellevue and Seattle, Washington, with others in Virginia, California, Arizona and abroad. Every role listed here is on the Kuiper team, as Amazon's own job site tags it.
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 711 open jobs at Amazon Leo; their typical pay runs $148k to $227k a year, with a median of $169k.
Typical pay, live
Latest Amazon Leo openings
Read 7 Nov 2026, 10:01 UTCSoftware Development Engineer, Amazon Leo, Embedded Platform (opens the job details)
Flight Software · Redmond, Washington, USA · todayDetails
$165,200–$223,600/yrSystem Development Engineer, Leo Network Services (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · Redmond, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$122,600–$185,000/yrSystem Development Engineer, Leo Network Services (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · Sunnyvale, California, USA · 1d agoDetails
$122,600–$185,000/yrSoftware Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo Customer Terminal Software (opens the job details)
Flight Software · Redmond, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$143,700–$194,400/yrSenior Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo Customer Terminal Software (opens the job details)
Flight Software · Redmond, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$168,100–$227,400/yrSr. System Development Engineer (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Bellevue, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$151,200–$204,600/yrSystem Development Engineer (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Bellevue, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$129,200–$174,800/yrExecutive Assistant, Amazon Leo Global B2B (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Bellevue, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$82,700–$129,800/yrSenior Graphic Designer, Leo Industrial Design (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Redmond, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$141,000–$190,700/yrProgram Manager, NA Consumer Funding (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Bellevue, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$82,700–$129,800/yrGlobal Category Sourcing Manager - PCBA (opens the job details)
Supply Chain · Bellevue, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
Data Scientist, Phased Array Antenna System Validation (opens the job details)
Science & Data · Redmond, Washington, USA · 1d agoDetails
$136,000–$184,000/yr
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Amazon Leo on our lists
Where Amazon Leo's current postings put it, each list naming every other space employer in the same spot.
- Roles with no experience required3 open roles whose postings say so
- Cleared roles12 open roles that name a clearance level
- Relocation assistance1 open role whose posting offers it
- 9/80 schedule5 open roles on a compressed week
- No degree required17 open roles that take a diploma or an associate's
- Military experience counts2 open roles for veterans
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Amazon Leo at a glance
Amazon Leo is the satellite broadband network Amazon has been building under the name Project Kuiper: thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, the factory that builds them, launch processing in Florida, ground gateways and the antennas customers install. Its openings are mostly hardware and software engineering, with program management, operations and business roles beside them, and most of them sit around Redmond, Bellevue and Seattle, Washington, with others in Virginia, California, Arizona and abroad. Every role listed here is on the Kuiper team, as Amazon's own job site tags it.
711 roles taken from its careers site on 2026-11-07A recruiter wrote to you in Amazon Leo's name?
Amazon Leo's own sites: aboutamazon.com · amazon.jobs.
What Amazon Leo pays
Read from the ranges on its open jobs · 2026-11-07The median is $169k/yr over the 662 open jobs with a posted range, and single figures go from $55.1k/yr up to $350k/yr. Interns, technicians and senior engineers all sit in that figure; the table below separates the disciplines.
Measured from 651 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 49 of the 711 open jobs here state no pay.
The top-paying Amazon Leo jobs open now
Every 711, highest pay firstSenior Manager - Strategic Sourcing, Amazon Leo, Silicon Operations (opens the job details)
Supply Chain · Bellevue, Washington, USA · 1mo agoDetails
$277,400–$350,000/yrPrincipal Engineer, Amazon Leo (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Redmond, Washington, USA · 2mo agoDetails
$220,100–$297,700/yrSr. Manager, Software Development, Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Northridge, California, USA · 7mo agoDetails
$220,100–$297,700/yrSenior Silicon Product Engineer, Silicon operations (opens the job details)
Avionics · Sunnyvale, California, USA · 1d agoDetails
$213,000–$287,500/yrASIC NPI Planning Manager (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Sunnyvale, California, USA · 5d agoDetails
$213,000–$287,500/yr
The middle half is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top, measured the same way for every list on the site. A posting's range is base salary only: stock, sign-on money and bonuses are extra where a company offers them. The methodology explains how each pay figure is measured and graded.
What Amazon Leo looks for
The usual bar in each discipline Amazon Leo is staffing right now. A posting can ask for more or less (a clearance, a degree, years on hardware), so check the role itself before applying.
A business, finance, law or engineering degree; program managers often hold a PMP or an engineering background.
A computer science degree or equivalent experience; some programs need a US security clearance.
An engineering degree; test technicians often come from the military or a technical program.
An electrical or computer engineering degree; harness and board technicians often hold IPC certifications.
Often no degree: a trade school, apprenticeship or military background, plus certifications such as welding or IPC.
An electrical engineering degree with RF or signal-processing work; payload roles often want physics or optics.
Amazon Leo's disciplines
Each discipline page covers the work itself, the usual entry bar and the pay posted for it across the industry.
Amazon Leo pay by occupation, from its own postings: Product manager pay, RF engineer pay, Software engineer pay, Sales professional pay, Data scientist pay, Program manager pay, Electrical engineer pay, Systems engineer pay, Mechanical engineer pay, Propulsion engineer pay, Test engineer pay, Mission operations engineer pay, Manufacturing engineer pay, IT professional pay, Quality engineer pay, Supply chain professional pay.
For the wider picture, open the pay tables for every discipline or the space employers that pay the most.
Amazon Leo sites with openings
A town's page gathers the space roles open there, Amazon Leo's and its neighbours', ranks the busiest employers and points to nearby towns.
Signing up with Amazon Leo
Researched Oct 2026Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) hires through Amazon's own careers site: an online application, assessments where the role has them, a phone screening, then an interview loop in which you meet current employees one by one, each assessing different parts of your skills and experience against Amazon's Leadership Principles.
Eligibility
- Each posting states its own requirements, including any U.S. person status or security clearance the role needs; the share of Amazon Leo's open postings that name one is in the research below.
The sign-up steps
- 1
Online application
Apply to the role on Amazon's careers site, amazon.jobs, where Amazon Leo's openings are posted.
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Assessments
Amazon lists assessments as the next step of its hiring, with its own preparation page for them.
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Phone screening
A phone screening follows before the interviews.
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The interview loop
You meet individually with current employees in what Amazon calls the interview loop; each of them assesses different aspects of your skills and experience.
Amazon's interview loop
Individual interviews with current employees, each assessing different aspects of your skills and experience. Amazon prepares candidates on its Leadership Principles, behavioral questions and the STAR method.
Format
One-to-one interviews with current employees, in person or remote
How to prepare
- Prepare examples for Amazon's Leadership Principles, told in the STAR method (situation, task, action, result), which Amazon's own interview pages teach.
- Use Amazon's preparation page for your kind of role: it publishes separate ones for software, hardware, science, program and product roles, among others.
Preparing for it? Space industry interviews: what employers ask and check, from application to offer (2026) →
Tips to get accepted
- If your interview is remote, Amazon publishes a page on how its remote interviews work and how to prepare.
What isn't public
- Amazon's hiring pages do not say which roles have an assessment, how long the interview loop is, or how long a decision takes.
- The steps are Amazon's across its teams; Amazon Leo publishes no hiring process of its own.
Sources (2)
- Amazon, Interviewing at Amazon
- Amazon, The interview loop
Questions about Amazon Leo
How do I apply to Amazon Leo?
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What does Amazon Leo pay?
Across the 662 open Amazon Leo jobs that give a pay range, the middle of the market is $148k–$227k/yr and the median $169k/yr. The lowest posted figure is $55.1k/yr and the highest $350k/yr. These are base salary ranges as the postings give them; equity, bonuses and relocation help come on top where offered.
Which disciplines is Amazon Leo staffing?
Of its 711 openings, the largest groups are programs & business (157), ground software & IT (109) and systems, integration & test (93).
What does Amazon Leo ask for in program management and business jobs in space?
A business, finance, law or engineering degree; program managers often hold a PMP or an engineering background. The exact bar is in each Amazon Leo posting.
How fresh is this list of Amazon Leo roles?
We read Amazon Leo's public careers site every night. A role stays here as long as Amazon Leo keeps it up, dated with our last check.
Amazon Leo versus similar employers
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