Sr. Software Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

14h

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to
deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of
existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses,
and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations
operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

As a member of the avionics team you will develop low-level flight software that
runs on our avionics hardware. You will write specifications, design documents,
embedded software, and tests. You will work closely with hardware engineers to
best integrate with the Leo hardware platform, and controls engineers who own
the business logic for various flight functions. You are a member of a lean
team, and are responsible for designing and developing highly reliable platform
software to enable the success of our mission.

The Leo Avionics team is responsible for delivering the avionics devices that
fly our satellite (flight computers, power processing devices, and several
sensors and actuators). We own hardware specification and design through to
on-orbit flight performance, collaborating with many partner teams along the
way. We are primarily responsible for delivering the avionics devices, and
partner with many other cross-functional teams along the way.

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
• Experience programming in C
• Experience writing embedded software for bare metal or RTOS systems
• Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience programming in Rust or assembly
• Experience programming real-time control systems on embedded platforms
• Experience developing robust fault handling mechanisms
• Experience with Linux kernel and device driver development

Responsibilities

• Develop low-level embedded software for satellite hardware in the Leo system.
• Developing embedded software in assembly, C, C++, Rust or other languages
• Applying experience with bare metal and real-time embedded software philosophies and practices
• Reviewing schematics, decomposing avionics system requirements into embedded software requirements
• Experience with state machine development and verification mechanisms
• Developing fault-tolerant software for use in a radiation environment.
• Debugging using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and embedded software (bare-metal) troubleshooting techniques.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, design, code, test, and code/test coverage.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level