Sr. Embedded Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

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 without reliable connectivity.

We are looking for a Sr. Embedded Engineer to lead platform specific projects
and initiatives on Satellite as well as Ground Systems.

An ideal candidate would have multi-year experience working on mobile
communications (cellular or microwave) and impacting ASIC projects before and
after silicon tapeouts. The candidate should be familiar with and have
demonstrated experience in kernel programming and/or device drivers, and/or
working with peripheral devices. Experience with ethernet, SPI, I3C interfaces,
flash devices and other standard protocol based peripherals is highly desired. Experience with ARM based systems, FPGA based components is desired.

As a senior embedded software engineer on our team, you'll spend your days
developing and deploying MAC and PHY software stacks on FPGAs and pre-silicon
platforms for our custom modem and beamforming chips. You'll provide technical
leadership to a talented team of engineers, guiding architecture decisions and
mentoring the next generation of innovators. You'll build automation and tooling
that bridges production software from previous generations with next-generation
prototyping platforms. Throughout it all, you'll make sharp tactical tradeoffs,
communicate priorities with clarity and transparency, and keep strategic
outcomes firmly in sight.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 8+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 8+ years of hands on experience on embedded programming of common peripherals, communication based links, debug tool development and familiarity with FPGA/Emulation prototyping platforms

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing diagnostics through production phases like Hardware Validation Testing (HVT), Engineering Validation Testing (EVT), Device Validation Testing (DVT), Production Validation Testing (PVT)

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level