Senior Embedded SDE - Satellite Avionics

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo seeks an experienced embedded software engineer to develop low-level flight software for satellite hardware. You will write specifications, design documents, embedded software, and tests, collaborating with hardware and controls engineers to integrate with the Leo platform.

You will contribute across the full software lifecycle, mentor teammates, and help deliver reliable avionics software for space applications in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment in Redmond, WA.

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 of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience programming in C.
• Experience writing embedded software for bare metal or RTOS systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop low-level embedded software for satellite hardware in the Leo system.
• Developing embedded software in assembly, C, C++, Rust or other languages
• Applying experience with bare metal and real-time embedded software philosophies and practices
• Reviewing schematics, decomposing avionics system requirements into embedded software requirements
• Experience with state machine development and verification mechanisms
• Developing fault-tolerant software for use in a radiation environment.
• Debugging using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and embedded software (bare-metal) troubleshooting techniques.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, design, code, test, and code/test coverage.

Skills

C

Rust

Embedded systems

Mentorship

Code reviews

RTOS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Linux kernel

Device drivers

Git

RTOS

Job description

Amazon Leo seeks an experienced embedded software engineer to develop low-level flight software for satellite hardware. You will write specifications, design documents, embedded software, and tests, collaborating with hardware and controls engineers to integrate with the Leo platform.

You will contribute across the full software lifecycle, mentor teammates, and help deliver reliable avionics software for space applications in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment in Redmond, WA.