Sr. Software Development Engineer, Leo Embedded System Team

Project Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast affordable broadband to a wide range of customers including consumers businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

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 in Rust C C or other modern languages.
Write device drivers and system applications for the various satellite systems and device interfaces like I2C SPI CAN etc.
Develop security features for satellite systems.
Work closely with other software and hardware teams to support board bring-up and integration.

A day in the life
Come work at Amazon! We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space-based systems design. Come help us solve the difficult and rewarding development challenges in building highly reliable power efficient and low-cost satellite avionics!

About the team
Our team tackles many critical satellite functions including power management hardware interfaces command & telemetry and autonomous control. We are looking for an outstanding software engineer to participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and test to operations.

- 5 years of non-internship 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
- Experience and technical knowledge of security engineering system and network security authentication and security protocols cryptography and application security

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USA TX Austin - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
USA WA Redmond - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually