Software Development Engineer, Flight Software AI

Are you ready to work at the intersection of advanced spacecraft flight software and AI-native engineering

We are reinventing how flight software is built for Amazons low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation bringing
AI-native development to one of the most demanding real-time domains in engineering. Our toolkit spans agentic
development workflows coding agents (Kiro Claude Code Codex) agent harnesses and the LLM optimization that powers
them applied to software that flies.

The Role

You will own the full software development lifecycle end to end. This is greenfield territory: no playbook exists for
AI-native flight software development and you will help write it. Were looking for pioneers eager to lead this
transformation. You wont do it alone youll work alongside distinguished engineers from the front lines of the space
industry with 20 years of flight software experience and seasoned LLM engineers all committed to coaching mentoring
and growing new talent. Bring solid engineering fundamentals and the heart of a lion; well provide the rest.

Responsibilities

- Build deploy and optimize AI-native development systems agentic workflows agent harnesses and LLM optimization
for flight software in the space industry
- Develop embedded software in C/C on a real-time operating system (RTOS) and cloud software on Linux
- Write device drivers and system applications for flight code and flight management
- Partner closely with hardware teams on board bring-up and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integration testing

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
Are you ready to work at the intersection of advanced spacecraft flight software and AI-native engineering

We are reinventing how flight software is built for Amazons low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation bringing
AI-native development to one of the most demanding real-time domains in engineering. Our toolkit spans agentic
development workflows coding agents (Kiro Claude Code Codex) agent harnesses and the LLM optimization that powers
them applied to software that flies.

The Role

You will own the full software development lifecycle end to end. This is greenfield territory: no playbook exists for
AI-native flight software development and you will help write it. Were looking for pioneers eager to lead this
transformation. You wont do it alone youll work alongside distinguished engineers from the front lines of the space
industry with 20 years of flight software experience and seasoned LLM engineers all committed to coaching mentoring
and growing new talent. Bring solid engineering fundamentals and the heart of a lion; well provide the rest.

Responsibilities

- Build deploy and optimize AI-native development systems agentic workflows agent harnesses and LLM optimization
for flight software in the space industry
- Develop embedded software in C/C on a real-time operating system (RTOS) and cloud software on Linux
- Write device drivers and system applications for flight code and flight management
- Partner closely with hardware teams on board bring-up and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integration testing

- 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
- 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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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 Redmond - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually