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.

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Manufacturing Software Systems (MSS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer who will help solve a variety of technical challenges related to manufacturing satellites, ground equipment, and associated ASICs. You will play an active role in accelerating the manufacturing of satellites to quickly build the Amazon Satellite Constellation. You will tackle challenging, novel situations and will have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams spanning a variety of domains: software, hardware, networks, RF, embedded, real-time, distributed, as well as industrial automation systems.

You will design and develop manufacturing software to drive the assembly, calibration, testing, and provisioning of satellites. You will collaborate with teams from manufacturing engineering, product engineering, and security engineering to identify requirements and design manufacturing software. You will design and develop the end-to-end system capabilities required for manufacturing orchestration across factory production lines.

Along the way, we guarantee that you'll learn a ton, have fun, and make a positive impact on millions of people.

Key job responsibilities
- Architect and build software and standardized manufacturing test stations used for functional test, calibration and provisioning of satellites.
- Develop software infrastructure to support test case execution
- Architect and build automation to support development (CI/CD)
- Align with various stakeholders on software requirements
- Document software requirements from users
- Support manufacturing as well as new product development
- Enable automated data collection, data analysis
- Deliver end-user documents
- Own and execute software quality and release process
- Build the end-to-end system capabilities required for the orchestration of manufacturing across factory production lines
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- Collaborate with satellite component teams to develop and maintain secure manufacturing software systems, implementing chain-of-custody protocols to protect intellectual property and manufacturing assets.


A day in the life
In this role as Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be actively engaged in developing Kuiper’s secure manufacturing software system and orchestration software capabilities. These products enable industrial automation for the manufacturing of the Kuiper satellite fleet and supporting ground equipment. You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to develop, qualify, produce, and deploy solutions and products enabling Kuiper’s global network.

About the team
In this role as a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be actively engaged in developing Kuiper's secure manufacturing software system and orchestration software capabilities. These products enable industrial automation for the manufacturing of the Kuiper satellite fleet and its supporting ground equipment. You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to develop, qualify, produce, and deploy solutions and products enabling Kuiper's global network.