Applying to Amazon Leo · researched 30 Oct 2026
How to apply to Amazon Leo
Amazon 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.
, the SpaceJobs.Now board shows 726 open Amazon Leo roles; typical pay across them is $149k to $229k a year (median $169k).
The Amazon Leo application, one step at a time
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.
- 2
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.
What our research measures about Amazon Leo's postings
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.
Current Amazon Leo openings
All 726 open rolesMission 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/yr
Applying to Amazon Leo: questions
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.
How soon does Amazon Leo reply to an application?
Amazon's hiring pages state no timeline from application to offer.