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Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC
Redmond, Washington, USA
$115K a year
Full-time

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Key job responsibilities

  • Work with our peer teams and customers to design suitable software systems to fulfill the mission needs.
  • Develop cloud native software systems in Java and Python.
  • Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build high-available software services.
  • Design and develop performant software systems that meet the mission criteria and requirements.
  • Help on-board and mentor new team members.

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.

About the team

The Constellation Management & Mission Planning teams build the software services responsible for maintaining situational awareness of Kuiper satellites and planning activities for them over their entire lifecycle in space.

We build automated systems that use relevant data to predict future orbits, plan maneuvers to avoid high risk close approaches with other objects in space, keep satellites in the desired locations, and exchange data with external organizations.

We provide visibility information used to predict and establish communication channels for Kuiper satellites. We plan and schedule activities such that the satellites undergo maintenance without an impact to the Kuiper service.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ 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
  • Experience with AWS cloud native software development and 1+ years experience working on ground software for space mission applications
  • 30+ days ago
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