Satellite Test Automation Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 184,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Leo is seeking a software engineer to design, build, and maintain automated test systems for our satellite network. You will develop test harnesses and orchestration tools, interfacing with lab hardware and coordinating across distributed HITL venues to validate end-to-end performance.

Ideal candidates have strong Python/C++ skills, Linux networking experience, and a track record building scalable test infrastructure with CI/CD. On-site role in Redmond, WA with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience programming with Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
• 3+ years of professional software development including building test automation, tooling, or production systems.
• Experience designing and building automated test frameworks, test harnesses, or test orchestration software.
• Experience interfacing software with physical hardware at a low level—e.g., writing or debugging device-control code over serial/UART, I2C/SPI, USB, GPIO, or instrument-control protocols.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls) and the ability to diagnose connectivity issues.
• Experience building and operating production infrastructure, including automated provisioning and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks, test harnesses, and orchestration software that validate the satellite network end to end.
• Develop automated test suites and tooling used to author, run, schedule, and debug tests across distributed HITL venues.
• Write and maintain the low-level interface code and device drivers that let test systems command and read back from lab hardware over serial/UART, I2C/SPI, USB, Ethernet, and instrument-control interfaces (e.g., SCPI).
• Perform device bring-up and integration: understand hardware command sets and register maps, debug at the protocol level, and build abstraction layers exposing hardware to higher-level test automation.
• Design, build, and operate the infrastructure and networking that connects distributed hardware-in-the-loop test venues to cloud services.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment of test environments using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and own monitoring, alarming, dashboards, and observability for test orchestration systems and the infrastructure they depend on.
• Drive operational excellence: on-call response, incident management, root-cause analysis, and systemic fixes that prevent recurrence.
• Identify and resolve systemic reliability, scaling, and performance issues across the test stack—automation, compute, network, and storage.
• Collaborate with software engineers, applied scientists, systems engineers, and test teams to translate test and operational requirements into robust automation and infrastructure.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented software following engineering best practices, and participate in design and code reviews.

Skills

Python

C++

Test automation

Linux networking

Hardware integration

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch)

Job description

Amazon Leo is seeking a software engineer to design, build, and maintain automated test systems for our satellite network. You will develop test harnesses and orchestration tools, interfacing with lab hardware and coordinating across distributed HITL venues to validate end-to-end performance.

Ideal candidates have strong Python/C++ skills, Linux networking experience, and a track record building scalable test infrastructure with CI/CD. On-site role in Redmond, WA with comprehensive benefits.