2 months ago
Redmond, WA, USA or Los Angeles, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize reliable embedded flight software for star tracker systems, including device drivers, real-time control loops, autonomous behaviors, fault management, and AI/ML-driven decision-making.
- Architect and implement fault-tolerant, redundant software with health monitoring and autonomous recovery for satellite constellation operations.
- Build and maintain hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, simulation, validation, and automated regression test infrastructure.
- Own embedded software delivery from requirements decomposition and architecture through implementation, review, integration, deployment, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with hardware, systems, communications, manufacturing, optical, firmware, and operations teams to integrate and deploy space-based optical communication systems.
- Improve deployment and over-the-air update processes for safely delivering software to hundreds of satellites in orbit.
Requirements
- 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Proficiency in C and/or C++ with strong understanding of memory management, concurrency, and deterministic execution for resource-constrained embedded devices.
- Experience with Linux-based development environments, cross-compilation toolchains, and hardware-in-the-loop or software-in-the-loop test frameworks.
- Experience with Python for embedded-development test automation, simulation, or tooling.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes embedded C/C++ development, hardware troubleshooting, hardware/software integration, real-time systems, space systems, FPGA-adjacent interfaces, DMA engines, hardware/software co-design, remote device management, CI/CD and deployment automation, and aerospace or telecommunications environments.
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee due to export control requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, with optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.
- Position is listed in Northridge, California and Redmond, Washington.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.