Senior Software Development Engineer Project Kuiper

Amazons Project Kuiper is seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to
join our Battery team. In this role you will be responsible for the full software product road map of prototype testing the scale into production and the database solutions that our test systems will use to store results to draw analytical conclusions.

Youll be responsible for next generation system architecture from a blank slate as well as the continuous improvement of existing systems.

You will be working closely with Design Systems Power Reliability and testing engineers to design deploy and optimize stateoftheart satellite test systems.

You would participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and test to operations.

You will be designing and implementing a wide range of lowlevel software on our custom test hardware and its interfaces with our cloud based services.


Key job responsibilities
Understand functional principles of Kuiper satellite power systems hardware
Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition development and implementation of test solutions for satellite battery systems in an ambiguous and complex problem space.
Build software solutions to manage infrastructure needed to operate our system in a spy development environment and also in production at a large scale.
Collaborate with internal and external customers to define and implement system architectures for power systems integrated test venues.
Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what features and performance improvements to build.
Lead software design architecture for the test of Kuiper battery test and emulation systems (specifically the testing battery management systems custom circuit boards battery emulators).
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.
Automate build test and deploy pipelines.


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
Battery Management System (BMS) Testing: Develop and maintain automated test software for BMS validation including the configuration and control of battery testing racks and emulators.
Automated Reporting: Create tools for automated data collection analysis pass/fail and reporting. Design and implement solutions for live data broadcasting to make test data accessible to stakeholders in realtime.

Unit Test Development: Develop comprehensive unit test frameworks to validate software code independently of hardware. Emulate data acquisition systems power supplies batteries thermal and thermal vacuum chambers to enable software testing without physical hardware.




About the team
The battery design organization is a productoriented team that has been empowered to be entrepreneurial and nimble. The team owns the battery product life cycle from cell selection to electrical interconnection to pack structural design and test. We work with partner teams to define requirements execute test campaigns to verify and validate our designs and scale from new product introduction into full rate manufacturing.

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
4 years of noninternship professional software development experience
4 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
4 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 with Linux and Windows operating systems and working on Experience working on GNU/Linux distributions including deployment automation
3 years of experience building software with hardware interfaces such as test infrastructure for data acquisition power supplies and industrial sensors/actuators

Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
4 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python C/C or similar with experience in multithreaded programming in Python.
Experience with HIL (HardwareintheLoop) systems automated test frameworks
Experience with model unit testing frameworks and tools
Familiarity with environmental testing equipment (e.g. thermal chambers thermal vacuum chambers Shaker tables DAQs Battery Cyclers Battery Emulators etc).
Fundamental understanding of battery management systems and testing protocols.

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