About the position
Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. Manufacturing Software Systems (MSS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer who will help solve a variety of technical challenges related to manufacturing satellites, ground equipment, and associated ASICs. You will play an active role in accelerating the manufacturing of satellites to quickly build the Amazon Satellite Constellation. You will tackle challenging, novel situations and will have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams spanning a variety of domains: software, hardware, networks, RF, embedded, real-time, distributed, as well as industrial automation systems. You will design and develop manufacturing software to drive the assembly, calibration, testing, and provisioning of satellites. You will collaborate with teams from manufacturing engineering, product engineering, and security engineering to identify requirements and design manufacturing software. You will design and develop the end-to-end system capabilities required for manufacturing orchestration across factory production lines. Along the way, we guarantee that you'll learn a ton, have fun, and make a positive impact on millions of people.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build software and standardized manufacturing test stations used for functional test, calibration and provisioning of satellites.
- Develop software infrastructure to support test case execution.
- Architect and build automation to support development (CI/CD).
- Align with various stakeholders on software requirements.
- Document software requirements from users.
- Support manufacturing as well as new product development.
- Enable automated data collection, data analysis.
- Deliver end-user documents.
- Own and execute software quality and release process.
- Build the end-to-end system capabilities required for the orchestration of manufacturing across factory production lines.
- Collaborate with satellite component teams to develop and maintain secure manufacturing software systems, implementing chain-of-custody protocols to protect intellectual property and manufacturing assets.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ 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.
Benefits
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
