Software Development Engineer, I&T, Kuiper Ground Systems Engineering

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 under-served communities around the world.

We are looking for Software Development Engineer to help us build this service from the ground up.

Key job responsibilities

• Define, build, test, and support infrastructure to automate ground systems hardware Integration & Test activities at scale
• Leverage AWS to develop solutions that bridge the gap between ground systems suppliers and internal backend systems
• Own the full software development lifecycle, including design, testing and integration with other Kuiper systems

This role will be part of the Software and Algorithms (SWALG) team, part of Ground Systems Engineering. SWALG is responsible for :

• Design, development, deployment, and support of a tier 1 Monitoring and Remediation System (MARS) needed to maintain high availability of hundreds of ground terminals deployed around the world.
• Ground systems integration / test (I&T) automation
• Ground terminal configuration, provisioning, and acceptance automation
• Systems analysis
• Algorithm development (pointing / tracking / calibration / monitoring)
• Software interface definition for supplier-provided hardware and development of software test automation
• Definition of use cases / requirements needed to drive ground modem software development

Export Control Requirement :

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.

A day in the life

In this role as a Software Development Engineer, you will design, implement, optimize, and operate systems critical to the uptime and performance of Kuiper ground terminals.

Your contributions will have a direct impact on customers around the world.

About the team

The Kuiper Ground Systems Engineering team is responsible for the development, deployment, and long-term performance optimization of Kuiper satellite ground terminals located around the world (Gateway and Telemetry, Tracking, and Command (TT&C)).

Ground terminals include full-motion parabolic antennas, radio frequency spectrum monitoring, terminal monitoring and control, and fault management systems.

These software-driven distributed systems form the communications backbone for the Kuiper constellation and must provide the world-class reliability, uptime, and performance our customers expect from Amazon.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ 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 using AWS and Python is a plus
30+ days ago