Embedded Software Engineer, Merlin Platform

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.

This position is to develop new features and maintain embeded software on satellite. You will work to increase and maintain satellite availability to 99.99%. You will provide solutions to prevent SW regression. You will participate to debugging of issues in space (SW and HW), and provide mechanism to detected early, provide mitigation when appropriate, and provide fixes (both new design and bug fixes) to address the problems.

You will work with HW engineers, PE and SDEs from various team to improve our stack.

Export Control Requirement

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.

Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

• Develop software solutions to effectively manage the infrastructure required for secure, large-scale operation of our system.
• Take ownership of the complete software development lifecycle, encompassing design, testing, deployment, and mission integration.
• Engage in end-to-end participation in major engineering projects, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Take the lead in identifying and resolving software architectural deficiencies, and facilitating the delivery of higher-quality software at an accelerated pace, enabling faster iterations towards the right solution.
• Effectively communicate your ideas to achieve optimal outcomes for both your team and the customer. Encourage diverse perspectives and incorporate feedback to enhance results.
• Drive the adoption of software best practices, including security, quality, and operational excellence.

A day in the life

You participate in our team standup and aligned on priorities / status. You work on a feature or troubleshooting an issue reported from space and/or integrated lab venues. You review code from your peers and participate in design / test plan reviews.

You often have cross-functional meetings with other teams to ensure the solution/fix to a problem is the right long term solution. You provide automation for a feature or a bug fix.

About the team

The Merlin platform team is a group of 9 SDEs working on embedded SW for the satellites . We are responsible to control the ASICs in our payload modules and detect & remediate faults (SW and HW).

The team is mix of L5 and L6. We work on the main controller and the ASIC and focus on the health of the ASICs during contact, BIST, satellite maneuvers and Over-The-Air updates. We provide SW handling / migitation when an ASIC is not acting properly. We work close to the HW (FPGA, buses, Operating systems) to ensure reliable and optimal performance of our Payload Line Units