Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Linux for Spaceflight

Amazon; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Leo in the United States seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, implement, and test embedded software for Star Tracker flight hardware running on Linux, with real-time control, fault management, and OTA update capabilities.

You will own software delivery lifecycles from requirements to deployment, collaborate with hardware, systems, and operations teams, and help scale a satellite constellation with rigorous quality and export-control compliance.

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 as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize highly reliable flight software for Star Tracker flight systems, spanning low-level device drivers and real-time control loops to high-level autonomous behaviors, fault management, and AI/ML-driven decision-making that target Linux environments.
• Architect and implement fault-tolerant, redundant software systems that keep systems operational with continuous uptime across a constellation of satellites, including health monitoring and autonomous recovery without ground intervention.
• Build and maintain robust test, validation, and simulation infrastructure, from hardware-in-the-loop testbeds and software-in-the-loop virtualizations to automated regression suites.
• Own the full lifecycle of embedded software delivery - from requirements decomposition and architecture design through implementation, code review, integration, deployment, and long-term maintenance of software running on satellites in orbit.
• Collaborate deeply with cross-functional teams spanning hardware, systems, communications, manufacturing and operations engineers to design, integrate, test, and deploy high-speed optical communication systems that push the boundaries of space-based networking.
• Develop and refine autonomous operational behaviors that enable satellites to independently recover and adapt to changing conditions, and respond to anomalies.
• Drive continuous improvement of deployment and over-the-air update processes, ensuring new capabilities and fixes can be safely and reliably delivered to hundreds of satellites on orbit with minimal operational risk.

Skills

Software development experience

C/C++

Leadership / tech lead

Embedded development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Linux embedded environment

Job description

Amazon Leo in the United States seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, implement, and test embedded software for Star Tracker flight hardware running on Linux, with real-time control, fault management, and OTA update capabilities.

You will own software delivery lifecycles from requirements to deployment, collaborate with hardware, systems, and operations teams, and help scale a satellite constellation with rigorous quality and export-control compliance.