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Software Development Engineer, Leo Flight Software Team

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15 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $194k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the Graviton bare-metal virtualization layer, including KVM/QEMU virtual machine management, subsystem lifecycle, health monitoring, and fault recovery.
  • Develop embedded software, device drivers, and system applications for satellite systems running on virtual hardware.
  • Integrate with microcontrollers and emulate FPGA, HSM, sensor, CAN bus, EFUSE, and other hardware peripherals.
  • Build and maintain AMI and provisioning pipelines for satellite dependencies, software images, firmware, and certificates.
  • Extend the Graviton plugin framework for satellites, gateways, terminals, and other virtual LRU types.
  • Implement VM networking, WireGuard tunnels, inter-entity networking, and TT&C link emulation.
  • Optimize QEMU boot and provisioning latency and debug host, guest, and emulation issues across Ubuntu/ARM64 and LEP/Yocto systems.
  • Collaborate with software and hardware teams on board bring-up and integration testing.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • Experience with Linux systems programming using C, Rust, Python, or Bash.
  • Experience with virtualization or emulation such as KVM, QEMU, or Docker.
  • Familiarity with embedded Linux boot processes, systemd, device drivers, or Yocto/Buildroot.
  • Experience with shell scripting and system automation.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience includes ARM64 or Graviton, QEMU device emulation, QMP, custom QEMU plugins, device drivers, microcontrollers, network virtualization, satellite or hardware test environments, EC2 bare-metal, SSM, EC2 Image Builder, Packer, secure boot, HSM interfaces, Python packaging, container image management, and Rust systems programming.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, refugee, or asylee under applicable export control requirements.

Benefits

  • Amazon offers health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and additional benefits including life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
  • The stated base salary range is $143,700.00–$194,400.00 annually, with potential sign-on payments and RSUs.
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