Embedded Software Engineer, Project Kuiper Optical Inter-Satellite Link

Amazon • Los Angeles, CA

83d • $129,300 - $223,600

About The Position

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth’s most customer centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join this ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in distributed systems and software design. Come work at Amazon!

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++/Rust/assembly and scripting development in Python

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable flight software, ranging from low level control to autonomous system behaviors for RTOS and/or bare-metal environments
• Develop supporting test, validation, and simulation software infrastructure
• Participate in the full life-cycle of software development, from requirements definition and design all the way to deployment and maintenance in orbit
• Work closely with software, hardware and systems engineers to support design, build, integration, test, and deployment of high speed optical communication systems

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree