Senior Technical Program Manager, Embedded Satellite Platform

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Leo is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager with experience in aerospace, satellite communications, and embedded systems to lead cross-functional software projects. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and program management to ensure development meets schedule, cost, and quality targets while navigating technical trade-offs.

In this role you will drive end-to-end delivery of Satellite Embedded Software across subsystems, manage scrums and dependencies, and report

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical program management experience with software engineering teams.
• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk management.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering leaders to plan Satellite Embedded software projects.
• Ensure development meets schedule, cost, and quality targets.
• Drive project execution, make technical trade-offs, track status, resolve blockers.
• Align architecture, hardware, software, firmware for cross-functional deliverables.
• Translate technical specs for Leo's Satellite Embedded software.
• Establish scrums, budgets, dashboards, and delivery schedules.
• Map HW/SW dependencies and track milestone progress.

Skills

Technical program management

Project management

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science

Job description

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

The Amazon Leo team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager with experience in aerospace/satellite communications/Embedded systems, project management, and program management. The role will interface with cross-functional engineering and program/product management teams with primary focus on delivering top quality Satellite Embedded Softwtare. Join us and make a difference to people around the world.

Key job responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Satellite Embedded software development.
• Work with product/program management to ensure that development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
• Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.
• Aggregate and convert technical specifications for Leo's Satellite Embedded software systems.
• Establish mechanisms to manage scrums, tasks, budgets, dashboards, schedule and overall delivery.
• Map HW / SW co-dependencies and track accuracy of plans and technical developments for all major milestones

A day in the life

In this role, you will build and scale Project Leo’s Embedded Satellite software development programs. You are accountable for creating and working the complex multi-subsystem program plan for the development, test and delivery of Leo's Satellite system , and their integration with rest of Leo system for delivering an end-to-end network solution with an exceptional quality of experience for our customers.

About the team

The Team is responsible for Architecture, design and delivering and end to end Embedded System Software for both constellation and ground, as well as the services that utilize the network to delivery last mile and back-haul internet services.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• 3+ years of software development experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually