System Development Engineer, GSE Automation, Project Kuiper

System Development Engineer

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

We are hiring a System Development Engineer to develop and integrate hardware and software for satellite production manufacturing and test applications. This is a highly collaborative position that interfaces with Project Kuiper production, engineering, and IT infrastructure teams.

Key job responsibilities:

• Test system development and integration: The System Development Engineer is responsible for developing automated testing to verify functional requirements of Project Kuiper satellites and subsystems.
• Manufacturing automation development: The SysDE will develop automated manufacturing applications on the Kuiper SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) platform.
• Ownership and collaboration: The SysDE is responsible for learning and addressing the business needs through interaction with partner teams. The SysDE will generate requirements collaboratively, document and collect customer feedback on the design, then implement and iterate. The SysDE is a single-threaded owner, responsible for delivering functioning applications to production, providing support for startup activities, and participating in an on-call rotation for production downtime escalations.
• Security and compliance: Produce system architecture and design documents for end-user, front line support, and security review purposes. Ensure that system integrations comply with internal IT and Security standards, with code that is well-documented and version controlled.

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.

A day in the life: This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. You will work with leaders in multiple technology areas across Project Kuiper to define and develop automation systems to meet the program needs. In addition, you will be responsible for project management, cost estimates and scheduling. You'll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you'll be constantly looking for ways to improve your product's performance, quality and cost. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

About the team: The Ground Support Equipment (GSE) team is responsible for designing and commissioning automation and tooling for Satellite testing and production. This in-house team of engineers work directly with satellite designers, production teams, and manufacturing engineers to solve unique problems in high-volume satellite production.