Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individualhouseholds to schools hospitals businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
We are hiring a Sr. System Development Engineer to develop and integrate hardware and software for satellite production manufacturing.
This is a highly collaborative position that interfaces with Project Kuiper production engineering and IT infrastructure teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Manufacturing automation development: The Sr. SysDE will develop automated manufacturing applications in the Kuiper SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) ecosystem.
- Ownership and collaboration: The Sr. SysDE is responsible for learning and addressing the business needs through interaction with partner teams. The Sr. SysDE will generate requirements collaboratively document and collect customer feedback on the design then implement and iterate. The Sr. SysDE is a single-threaded owner responsible for delivering functioning applications to production providing support for startup activities and participating in an on-call rotation for production downtime escalations.
- Security and compliance: Produce system architecture and design documents for end-user front line support and security review purposes. Ensure that system integrations comply with internal IT and Security standards with code that is well-documented and version controlled.
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
This is a fast-paced intellectually challenging position. You will work with leaders in multiple technology areas across Amazon Leo to define and develop automation systems to meet the program addition you will be responsible for project management cost estimates and scheduling. Youll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and youll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products performance quality and cost. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.
About the team
The Ground Support Equipment (GSE) team is responsible for designing and commissioning automation and tooling for Amazon Leo production. This in-house team of engineers work directly with satellite designers production teams and manufacturing engineers to solve unique problems in high-volume satellite production.
- Experience leading the design automation deployment and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
- Experience in mentoring leading or managing more junior engineers
- Experience writing technical documents project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Kirkland - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually