24 hours ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize reliable embedded flight software for Star Tracker hardware, from device drivers and real-time control loops to autonomous behaviors and fault management.
- Architect fault-tolerant and redundant software with health monitoring and autonomous recovery across a satellite constellation.
- Build test, validation, and simulation infrastructure, including hardware-in-the-loop testbeds, software-in-the-loop virtualization, and automated regression suites.
- Own embedded software delivery from requirements decomposition and architecture through implementation, code review, integration, deployment, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with hardware, systems, communications, manufacturing, and operations engineers to integrate, test, and deploy optical communication systems.
- Develop autonomous operational behaviors that enable satellites to recover and adapt to anomalies.
- Improve deployment and over-the-air update processes for safely delivering software to satellites in orbit.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Experience with embedded development in C/C++.
- Preferred: 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience developing in a Linux embedded environment.
Benefits
- Base benefits include health insurance, life and AD&D insurance options, employee assistance and mental health support, medical advice services, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- The role is available in Northridge, California, or 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.