Software Development Engineer, Leo Flight Software Team

Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools hospitals businesses and government agencies Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

About the Role:

We are looking for an Embedded Software Development Engineer to build and scale - VirtSat (Leos Virtual Satellite Simulation platform). VirtSat enables developers and pipelines across Leo to create provision and test virtual satellites ground gateways customer terminals and TT&C antennas on EC2 bare-metal infrastructure running KVM/QEMU.

As part of role you will own the Graviton virtualization layer managing VM lifecycle LRU boot subsystem provisioning and software deployment for every virtual entity in the constellation. You will work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure embedded Linux and satellite operations building the platform that every Leo satellite software release is tested on before launch.

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
What Youll Work On :

* Own the Graviton bare-metal virtualization layer KVM/QEMU VM management subsystem start/stop health monitoring and fault recovery.
* Develop embedded software in Rust C C or other modern languages for the virtualization and emulation layer
* Write device drivers and system applications for the various satellite systems running on virtual hardware
* Write software to interact with micro-controllers and emulated hardware peripherals (FPGA HSM sensors)
* Build and maintain the custom AMI pipeline that pre-configures all satellite dependencies reducing provisioning time and preventing dependency drift
* Develop and optimize provisioning scripts that deploy satellite software (LEP images firmware certificates) onto emulated LRUs via SSM
* Implement plugin framework extensions for new LRU types (satellites GGMAs GTMAs customer terminals) on the Graviton host
* Build network virtualization between VMs WireGuard tunnels inter-entity networking and TT&C link emulation
* Optimize boot-time and provisioning latency for QEMU-based satellite instances
* Debug and resolve issues at the intersection of host OS (Ubuntu/ARM64) guest OS (LEP/Yocto) and QEMU emulation
* Develop fidelity improvements HSM crypto emulation EFUSE emulation CAN bus simulation and error injection frameworks
* Work closely with other software and hardware teams to support board bring-up and integration testing

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience with Linux systems programming (C Rust Python or Bash)
- Experience with virtualization or emulation (KVM QEMU Docker or similar)
- Familiarity with embedded Linux (boot process systemd device drivers or Yocto/Buildroot)
- Experience with shell scripting and system automation
- BS in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or equivalent

- Experience with ARM64 architecture or Graviton instances
- Experience with QEMU device emulation QMP protocol or custom QEMU plugins
- Experience writing device drivers or interacting with micro-controllers
- Experience with network virtualization (WireGuard bridge networking TAP/TUN interfaces)
- Familiarity with satellite systems hardware test environments or simulation platforms
- Experience with EC2 bare-metal instances and SSM for remote commanding
- Experience with AMI/image building pipelines (EC2 Image Builder Packer)
- Familiarity with certificate provisioning secure boot or HSM interfaces
- Experience with Python packaging (pip virtualenv) and container image management (ECR Docker)
- Experience with Rust for systems programming

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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