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. Come work at Amazon! We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space-based systems design. Come help us solve the difficult and rewarding development challenges in building highly reliable, power efficient and low-cost satellite avionics! We are looking for an engineer who combines technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. As a Senior Avionics Embedded Software Engineer, you will focus on developing software to enable, integrate and operate the various sensing, compute and bus systems of the satellite system. You will have an opportunity to make a significant impact on the design, architecture and implementation of critical systems within Project Kuiper.
Responsibilities
- Identify top level requirements and participate in all phases of embedded software development, from concept and design to development and maintenance.
- Work with other members of the Avionics team to support hardware bring-up and debug.
- Develop both prototype and production software.
- Lead software and architecture design reviews, ensuring Amazon's high development standards are met and team best practices are followed.
- Collaborate with multiple other spacecraft design and integration teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience designing, building, and debugging software for embedded Microcontrollers (ARM, PIC, etc.) in a production environment.
- Experience in development and test of bus systems (CAN, RS-422, RS-485, Ethernet, 802.1AS, etc.).
Benefits
- Base pay ranges from $151,300/year in the lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in the highest geographic market.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
