Embedded Software Engineer, Leo Payload Software Systems

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s 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.

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

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.

• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems. Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

• Develop software solutions to effectively manage the infrastructure required for secure, large-scale operation of our system.
• Take ownership of the complete software development lifecycle, encompassing design, testing, deployment, and mission integration.
• Engage in end-to-end participation in major engineering projects, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Take the lead in identifying and resolving software architectural deficiencies, and facilitating the delivery of higher-quality software at an accelerated pace, enabling faster iterations towards the right solution.
• Effectively communicate your ideas to achieve optimal outcomes for both your team and the customer. Encourage diverse perspectives and incorporate feedback to enhance results.
• Drive the adoption of software best practices, including security, quality, and operational excellence.

A day in the life As a Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the advancement of Leo’s Software capabilities. This entails the development of products that facilitate reliable and high-speed communication with Leo satellites, supporting their mission-critical operations. Collaborating with a skilled cross-disciplinary team, you will contribute to the development, testing, production, and worldwide implementation of solutions and products that empower Leo’s expansive global network.

About the team Our team tackles many critical satellite payload functions including Over-The-Air (OTA) updates, hardware fault detection, isolation and remediation, operational state management, buses and devices integrity verifications (ex. PRBS), hardware and software integration. We are looking for an outstanding software engineer to participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and test to operations.

In this role, you will:

• Own unique embedded software functions through design, implementation (in C, C++, RUST or other), test, and integration in an embedded Linux or real-time operating system (RTOS) environment.
• Write software to control silicon devices using proprietary and standard communication buses, such as Interlaken SerDes, JESD, PCIe, I3C, I2C, SPI, RS-422, RS-485, Ethernet, etc.
• Work closely with hardware teams to support board design, bring-up, and verification, as well as integration and test.
• Follow best practices in high reliability embedded software development to ensure very high levels of system reliability and availability.
• Debug low-level issues at the intersection of hardware/FPGA/firmware/software on multicore SOCs.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent