Satellite Power Systems Automation Engineer

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Leo seeks a System Development Engineer to build automation for power-system health across 3,000+ satellites and to drive runbooks for in-flight anomalies. You will coordinate between Mission Operations and Power System Design Engineering, providing hands-on support and process automation improvements.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 1+ year of software development experience, with skills in Python, Golang, or similar languages, and data analysis capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience with data analysis tools and software.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary operational liaison between Power System Engineering and Leo flight operations stakeholders.
• Monitor and assess power system health across the constellation.
• Develop metrics to track health and service uptime of each satellite & constellation.
• Investigate and troubleshoot in-flight anomalies, and execute operational responses.
• Escalate to responsible engineers for scenarios where existing automation or runbooks do not apply.
• Document operational instructions and procedures for the benefit of other Power operators.
• Support on-call activities for the areas your team support.

Skills

Python

Golang

Java

C++

Data analysis

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git

Automation tooling

Job description

Amazon Leo seeks a System Development Engineer to build automation for power-system health across 3,000+ satellites and to drive runbooks for in-flight anomalies. You will coordinate between Mission Operations and Power System Design Engineering, providing hands-on support and process automation improvements.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 1+ year of software development experience, with skills in Python, Golang, or similar languages, and data analysis capabilities.