Real-Time Wireless Embedded FW Engineer for Satellite Systems

Amazon; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in California (USA) is seeking a firmware engineer to design and bring up Leo-MAC FW that runs on ground networks and on satellites, delivering embedded software for customer terminals and space hardware.

You will join a cross-functional team to define performance requirements, optimize trade‑offs, build test cases, and debug firmware in a real‑time environment, contributing to a high‑impact, world‑spanning broadband project.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for complex systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Working in a cross-functional environment to define multi-dimensional performance requirements (e.g., MIPs, memory BW).
• Make performance and optimization trade-offs to meet end-to-end use case requirement.
• Build component use-cases/test-cases and debug your code in Leo embedded environment.
• Profile and execute the code on RTOS and/or bare-metal embedded environment.
• Contribute in defining services and functionalities delivered by your FW-subsystems.
• Define, document, test and debug your FW-HW interfaces.
• Familiarity with SW/FW best practices (e.g., clean architecture, refactoring, ...)

Skills

3+ years experience

Design patterns

C/C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon in California (USA) is seeking a firmware engineer to design and bring up Leo-MAC FW that runs on ground networks and on satellites, delivering embedded software for customer terminals and space hardware.

You will join a cross-functional team to define performance requirements, optimize trade‑offs, build test cases, and debug firmware in a real‑time environment, contributing to a high‑impact, world‑spanning broadband project.