Senior MAC Firmware Engineer - Satellite LEO Platform

Amazon; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is hiring an experienced software engineer to design and bring up Kuiper-MAC firmware in a real-time embedded setting in San Diego, CA.

You will work in a cross-functional team to define performance requirements, make trade-offs, and build tests for FW subsystems while profiling on RTOS or bare-metal environments. The role demands strong leadership, debugging and familiarity with RF standards in broadband wireless.

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.
• Experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems.
• Experience with current and upcoming RF standards in cellular (4G/5G NR), WiMAX, 802.11ad, microwave backhaul, or related broadband wireless standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate and bring up Kuiper-MAC FW components/drivers in a real-time embedded environment
• 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

Non-internship software development

Programming in at least one language

Mentor/tech lead experience

Design/architecture leadership

Debugging and profiling

RF standards knowledge

Large-scale systems experience

Embedded real-time development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

RTOS

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is hiring an experienced software engineer to design and bring up Kuiper-MAC firmware in a real-time embedded setting in San Diego, CA.

You will work in a cross-functional team to define performance requirements, make trade-offs, and build tests for FW subsystems while profiling on RTOS or bare-metal environments. The role demands strong leadership, debugging and familiarity with RF standards in broadband wireless.