Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide lowlatency highspeed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
You will design craft and deploy reliable embedded software for large quantity of consumer electronic products. Kuiper is breaking new ground with every device we design and you will be an integral part of bringing this family of products to customers.
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
Develop embedded software for terrestrial devices within the Project Kuiper system.
Participate in all phases of SDLC including requirements gathering design code test and code/test coverage.
Developing embedded software in assembly C C Rust or other languages
Have experience with realtime embedded software philosophies and practices
Have expertise with Linux and RTOS
Review schematics logic analyzer and embedded software (baremetal) troubleshooting techniques.
A day in the life
As part of our software engineering team you will design and implement embedded software used in the Project Kuiper products. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams inside and outside of Amazon. You will craft your software from requirements designs code test to product deployment. You need to be flexible and responsive to changing priority issues.
About the team
The Kuiper Team supports the devices that connect our customers to the Kuiper network. We provide software for both applications and the underlying Linux system. We work hand in hand with hardware product and operations teams to deliver a great experience for our customers.
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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