Senior Embedded Systems Engineer & Tech Lead (RTOS/Linux)

Socket.dev

Redmond (WA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 227,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Ongoing training and development

Job summary

Amazon Leo CT SW Team is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design, develop, and deploy software for terrestrial devices in the Kuiper project. The role spans the full SDLC and requires hands-on work across assembly, C/C++, and Rust with real-time embedded systems and Linux expertise.

You will collaborate with hardware, product and operations teams, guiding code reviews, architecture decisions, and deployment.

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 (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

Develop embedded software for terrestrial devices within Amazon Leo system.
Participate in all phases of SDLC including requirements gathering, design, code, test, and code/test coverage.
Developing embedded software in assembly, C, C++, Rust or other languages
Have experience with real-time embedded software philosophies and practices
Have expertise with Linux and RTOS
Review schematics, logic analyzer, and embedded software (bare-metal) trouble‑shooting techniques.