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Location

Redmond, WA | United States

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Job description

DESCRIPTION

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper 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.

A day in the life

As lead of the Terrestrial Applications software engineering team you will be responsible for leading the design of embedded software used in the Project Kuiper customer terminal products. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams inside and outside of Amazon. You will mentor a team of software engineers on best practices while you guide software designs from requirements gathering through mass production. You will need to be flexible and responsive to high priority issues. This role will not have people management responsibilities.

About the hiring group

The Kuiper Terrestrial Applications Team builds the software powering the devices that connect customers to the Kuiper network. Our applications range from dataplane and antenna control to ephemeris data management and customer notification APIs. We work hand in hand with hardware, product and operations teams to deliver a great experience for our customers.

Job responsibilities

· Develop software for terrestrial devices within the Project Kuiper system.
· Participate in all phases of SDLC including requirements gathering, design, code, test, and code/test coverage.
· Developing software in assembly, C, C++, Rust or other languages
· Familiarity with real-time embedded software philosophies and practices
· Expertise with Linux and RTOS
· Experience validating software on custom hardware, including use of attached test equipment

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
Create full-stack software to run in an embedded product.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

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