Software Development Engineer, Integrated Vehicle Testing

Description

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.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer with exposure to AWS tools and services to help architect advanced test infrastructure. Our team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that will serve as the backbone for automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of manufacturing processes.

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

* Understand functional principles of Amazon Leo satellite hardware, software and all backend services that enable the operation of our constellation.

* Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development and implementation of test solutions for integrated satellite hardware and software in an ambiguous and complex problem space.

* Build software solutions to manage infrastructure needed to operate our system in development and production environments.

* Build software solutions to manage infrastructure needed to operate our system at large scale.

* Collaborate with internal and external customers to define and implement system architectures for integrated test venues.

* Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what features and performance improvements to build.

* Design and develop complex test sequences that coordinate and synchronize equipment and services across multiple layers to verify function and performance of satellite hardware and software.

* Instill best practices for software development documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, delivering high quality software on tight schedules.

* Build and maintain data pipelines and data catalogs.

A day in the life

As an Amazon Leo Software Development Engineer you will own the development, implementation and test of software for Amazon Leo integrated vehicle test venues. You will work with engineering teams across ground and space systems, to develop an integrated solution to test fully assembled satellite vehicles and ensure readiness for launch operations. You will be focused on driving automation and optimization of test processes, data pipelines, and test analysis.

About the team

The Integrated Vehicle Testing team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that will serve as the backbone of automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of manufacturing processes.

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

* 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

* Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

* 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

* Experience building data pipelines or automated ETL processes

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