Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Optical Inter-Satellite Link

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.

Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join this ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in distributed systems and software design. Come work at Amazon!

Key job responsibilities
Develop embedded software in C/C/Rust and assembly for RTOS and/or baremetal environments
Participate in the full lifecycle of development from planning all the way to deployment and maintenance stages
Develop highly reliable embedded software from low level to flight control and management application level
Work closely with hardware and systems engineers to support boardbring up and design of control algorithms
Export Control Requirements
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
As a Software Development Engineer you will be a member of the optical intersatellite link (ISL) team focusing on the design implementation and verification of software systems to control and monitor highrate optical communications. You will be responsible for identifying top level requirements and ensuring high quality and innovative designs are pursued while also supporting other Project Kuiper colleagues with reviewing and improving other embedded system designs.

About the team
We are looking for an engineer who combines superb technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. You will work with a multidisciplinary team of topnotch engineers and collaborate closely with the optical electrical firmware and optomechanical development teams. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that havent been solved at scale before. Along the way youll learn a lot have fun and make a positive impact on hundreds of millions of people.

5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 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

5 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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