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Amazon Leo
About Amazon Leo
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.
Typical pay, live
, the SpaceJobs.Now board shows 726 open Amazon Leo roles; typical pay across them is $149k to $229k a year (median $169k).
Live Amazon Leo roles
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 17:02 UTCMission Manager, Launch Operations, Mission Manager (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · Merritt Island, Florida, USA· 3w agoDetails
$127,100–$172,000/yrInformation Systems Security Manager , Amazon Leo Government (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Arlington, Virginia, USA· 3w agoDetails
$102,000–$178,400/yrCustomer Success Manager (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Bellevue, Washington, USA· 1d agoDetails
$82,700–$140,000/yrSr. Risk Manager, Leo Global Service Compliance (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Arlington, Virginia, USA· 4mo agoDetails
$121,200–$163,900/yrMgr, Satellite Processing Technology, Launch Ops, Launch Ops (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · Merritt Island, Florida, USA· 3mo agoDetails
$151,000–$204,300/yrSoftware Development Manager, Leo Flight Software Team (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Redmond, Washington, USA· 3mo agoDetails
$184,900–$250,200/yrManager, Strategy and Capture, ALG (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Arlington, Virginia, USA· 1w agoDetails
$147,900–$200,100/yrMarketing Operations Manager (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Bellevue, Washington, USA· 2w agoDetails
$109,100–$160,000/yrPrinciple Program Manager, Leo Bus & Flight Operations (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · Redmond, Washington, USA· 4w agoDetails
$177,000–$239,400/yrSr. Customer Success Manager (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Bellevue, Washington, USA· 1d agoDetails
$110,500–$193,500/yrTech Infra Program Manager, Leo Ground Infrastructure Operations (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · Bellevue, Washington, USA· 2w agoDetails
$127,100–$171,900/yr- $111,300–$186,100/yr
Amazon Leo jobs by country
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Amazon Leo jobs by US state
The states where Amazon Leo has the most open roles, each with its cities and kinds of work.
Amazon Leo jobs by site
The towns where Amazon Leo has the most open roles, each with its kinds of work and what each role asks.
- Redmond is Amazon's research and development site for its Leo (formerly Kuiper) satellites: 219,000 square feet, opened in 2020, able to build prototype and early satellites too. (Source: GeekWire)
- Kirkland is Amazon's factory for its Leo satellites: 172,000 square feet, planned to build up to four satellites a day. (Source: GeekWire)
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About Amazon Leo
Amazon's satellite internet constellation, formerly Project Kuiper: satellites, launches, ground stations and the terminals customers use. It pays $149k–$229k/yr typically (median $169k/yr).
Hiring now, with pay we measure from its own live feed726 open roles on Amazon Leo, independently checked 31 Oct 2026.
Paid as an employee on Amazon's own payroll (salaried or hourly, as each posting states).
Redmond, Bellevue and Seattle, WA; Arlington, VA; San Diego, CA; Arizona; Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia
Honest catches
- 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.
What Amazon Leo pays
From current postings · as of 31 Oct 2026Median $169k/yr, taken across 684 postings with a stated rate. Posted rates go as low as $39.8k/yr and as high as $350k/yr.
Measured from 677 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 42 of the 726 listings open here post no pay at all.
Best-paid Amazon Leo openings today
All 726 by paySenior Manager - Strategic Sourcing, Amazon Leo, Silicon Operations (opens the job details)
Supply Chain · Bellevue, Washington, USA· 1mo agoDetails
$277,400–$350,000/yrSr Manager ASIC NPI (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Sunnyvale, California, USA· 4mo agoDetails
$277,400–$350,000/yr- $277,400–$350,000/yr
Director, Embedded Software Engineering (opens the job details)
Flight Software · Redmond, Washington, USA· 7mo agoDetails
$264,100–$350,000/yrSr Manager, SW development, Leo Payload (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Sunnyvale, California, USA· 3d agoDetails
$253,100–$342,300/yr
“Typical” here means 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; every role list on this site uses that one definition. Our methods page explains where each pay number comes from and how sure we are of it.
The work Amazon Leo hires for
Open any of them for the day-to-day tasks, the other employers hiring for it, and the market rate.
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What our research measures about Amazon Leo
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring686 open roles, 4.3% of all the space roles we read, across 13 kinds of work; 170 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Who can apply87.6% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 5.4% name a security clearance.
- Degrees and experience3.9% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 34.8% name a master's or PhD.
- Degrees and experience8 of its open postings count military experience toward what they ask.
- Pay transparency94.3% of the postings state their pay, at a median $169,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level2 open roles are for someone starting out (0.3% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel4.1% of the postings ask for weekend work, 2.3% for overtime or extended hours, and 2.2% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- Shifts, weekends and travel5 of its open postings offer relocation.
How to apply to 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.
Who can apply
- 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.
Step by step
- 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.
- 3
Phone screening
A phone screening follows before the interviews.
- 4
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.
Amazon's hiring pages state no timeline from application to offer.
Tips to get hired
- 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.
From the forum
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Frequently asked questions
What does Amazon Leo do?
Amazon's satellite internet constellation, formerly Project Kuiper: satellites, launches, ground stations and the terminals customers use.
How much does Amazon Leo pay?
Openings at Amazon Leo pay $149k–$229k/yr in the usual case, and the midpoint sits at $169k/yr. We take both from the 684 current postings with a stated rate. The lowest posted rate is $39.8k/yr; the highest is $350k/yr.
What is it like to work at Amazon Leo?
Amazon Leo pays $149k–$229k/yr typically (median $169k/yr).
Which locations does Amazon Leo hire in?
Redmond, Bellevue and Seattle, WA; Arlington, VA; San Diego, CA; Arizona; Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia
How do I apply to Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper)?
On Amazon's careers site, amazon.jobs: an online application, assessments where the role has them, a phone screening and an interview loop with current employees.
What is Amazon's interview loop?
A set of individual interviews with current employees, each assessing different aspects of your skills and experience; Amazon prepares candidates on its Leadership Principles and the STAR method.
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