System Development Engineer, Amazon Leo, Amazon Leo

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo is seeking a System Development Engineer to design and build the test automation framework and orchestration software that validates our satellite network end-to-end. You will work across software, networking, and hardware interfaces, from device drivers to cloud infrastructure, in a high-stakes HITL environment.

You will develop automated test suites for distributed HITL venues, maintain low-level interface code, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and observability, ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience designing test automation frameworks for complex systems.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing and lab automation.
• Strong understanding of serial/UART, I2C/SPI, USB, Ethernet protocols.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks, harnesses, and orchestration software for end-to-end satellite network validation.
• Develop automated test suites and tooling for distributed HITL venues.
• Write low-level interface code and device drivers for lab hardware communication protocols.

Skills

Test automation

HITL testing

Device drivers

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting (Python)

Tools

SCPI

I2C

SPI

UART

USB

Ethernet

Job description

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations with or without reliable connectivity. Our Payload Integration and Testing (PIT) team validates the end-to-end network interface communication system both on the ground prior to launch and in-orbit to ensure we are providing customers a best-in-class experience. We're the final software quality gate, ensuring what customers experience on-orbit matches our design intent.

As a System Development Engineer, you'll design and build the test automation framework and procedures that validate our satellite network end to end -- and the full stack it runs on, from the device-interface layer that drives physical hardware up through the infrastructure and operational tooling that keep our hardware-in-the-loop (HILT) test venues running reliably at scale. You'll write the automation frameworks and test harnesses that exercise the system, the low-level interface code and device drivers that let those harnesses command and read back from lab hardware over protocols like serial/UART, I2C/SPI, USB, Ethernet, and instrument-control interfaces, and the compute, networking, provisioning, and observability underneath that keep it all healthy. The technical scope is broad and systems-oriented: you'll build test-orchestration and automation software, architect and automate cloud and on-premise infrastructure, integrate and bring up lab hardware down to the register and command level, and drive the operational excellence practices that keep a high-stakes, 24/7 test environment reliable. If you love building test automation, enjoy working at the intersection of software, networking, and physical hardware, and want to solve unique operational challenges in the space domain, this is an exceptional opportunity.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks, test harnesses, and orchestration software that validate the satellite network end to end
• Develop automated test suites and the tooling engineers use to author, run, schedule, and debug tests across distributed HITL venues
• Write and maintain the low-level interface code and device drivers that let test systems command and read back from lab hardware over protocols such as serial/UART, I2C/SPI, USB, Ethernet, and instrument-control interfaces (e.g., SCPI)
• Perform device bring-up and integration: understand hardware command sets and register maps, debug at the protocol level, and build the abstraction layers that expose hardware to higher-level test automation
• Design, build, and operate the infrastructure and networking that connects distributed hardware-in-the-loop test venues to cloud services
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment of test environments using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines
• Build and own monitoring, alarming, dashboards, and observability for test orchestration systems and the infrastructure they depend on
• Drive operational excellence: on-call response, incident management, root-cause analysis, and systemic fixes that prevent recurrence
• Identify and resolve systemic reliability, scaling, and performance issues across the test stack -- automation, compute, network, and storage
• Collaborate with software engineers, applied scientists, systems engineers, and test teams to translate test and operational requirements into robust automation and infrastructure
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented software following engineering best practices, and participate in design and code reviews