Wireless Systems Director, Satellite Networking

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon seeks a leader to manage and develop a world-class team of wireless communication systems engineers for Amazon Leo’s LEO satellite network. The role covers RF systems, PHY/DSP, MAC scheduling, 3GPP stacks, machine learning, and standards participation.

You will hire, guide, and scale the team, develop end-to-end system architectures, and drive verification and testing for space-ground telecom solutions. This is a high-impact leadership role in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of management experience.
• 10+ years of experience wireless technology development.
• 3+ years of managing a team of wireless communication system engineering.
• Experience on leading a team for systems research and design for 3GPP systems such as 4G LTE, 5G NR.
• Good communication skills along with writing documents, specification.

Responsibilities

• Hire and develop top wireless communication systems talent
• Manage the systems team responsible for developing new technology, solutions and algorithms
• Manage the development of system level and link level simulation platforms
• Develop end to end system architecture for wireless NTN networks in FR1 and FR2 and develop
• Publish and maintain implementation level specification for the HW/SW development.
• Define test cases for the integration and verification of end-to-end communication systems
• Support the development and integration of payload and ground software for LEO
• Define system test cases and test vectors for verification and validation
• Manage the participation in SDO such as 3GP, O-RAN etc.
• Assess future technologies, trends, and internal innovations to drive next generation solutions

Skills

Management

Wireless technology development

System design

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering

Master’s / PhD degree (preferred)

Tools

Matlab

Python

C++

Job description

Amazon seeks a leader to manage and develop a world-class team of wireless communication systems engineers for Amazon Leo’s LEO satellite network. The role covers RF systems, PHY/DSP, MAC scheduling, 3GPP stacks, machine learning, and standards participation.

You will hire, guide, and scale the team, develop end-to-end system architectures, and drive verification and testing for space-ground telecom solutions. This is a high-impact leadership role in a fast-paced environment.