Embedded Senior Software Engineer, Project Kuiper Customer Terminals

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

In this role, you will develop software for the Kuiper Customer Terminal embedded systems engineering team. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, deployment and operations of the functions for Kuiper Customer Terminals.

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.

Key job responsibilities

Development and testing with embedded Linux

Develop embedded software functions for Customer Terminal devices within the Project Kuiper system

Developing embedded software utilizing Rust, C++, C

Participate in all phases of SDLC : requirements, design, coding, test, deployment and production system

Development of software in a secure compute environment

State machine design and analysis

Support Customer Terminal deployments operations and debugging on production systems

Technical writing of design specifications

A day in the life

As part of our software engineering team, you will design, implement and debug software used to test and debug embedded software for Kuiper Customer Terminal platforms in R&D and commercial operation. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams in Kuiper Customer Terminal hardware development, software development and operations. You need to be flexible and responsive to fast changing priorities and issues. You will work on Customer Terminal issues on production system platforms.

About the team

The Kuiper Customer Terminal Software Team develops and supports the devices that connect Kuiper subscribers to the Kuiper network. We provide software for the Kuiper Customer Terminal platform, applications and underlying Linux system. We work hand in hand with hardware engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver commercial grade services for our Kuiper subscribers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 7+ 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 10+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500 / year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.