Sr System Development Engineer
Amazon· Sustaining Engineering / Amazon Leo
Redmond$151.2k - $204.6kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Hands-on Sr Systems Development Engineer for Amazon Leo (Kuiper) sustaining engineering, focusing on requirements management, design for manufacturing, hardware/software development for testing, and production optimization across satellite bus subsystems.
Responsibilities
- Lead software/hardware integration testing
- Lead innovative software/firmware/hardware architectures and flows for multiple manufacturing test lines
- Lead review and analysis on data using tools such as MATLAB, Python, or similar.
- Support and organize the release of the software and hardware system documents through gate reviews
- Investigate and troubleshoot yield issues during prototype and production builds
- Write status and/or build reports for cross-functional review
- Drive and prioritize execution of system test campaigns
- Design and develop software/scripting test setups and supporting hardware for various subsystem validation of the satellite bus
- Identify and analyze cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives (performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, scale)
- Drive cross-functional schedules, test requirements, specifications and limits with the hardware development team
- Work concurrently with design engineers to provide design for testability (DFT) feedback throughout the design process
- Support production and integration efforts for hardware subsystems
- Define test strategy, implement and optimize test setup/processes at the CM including design and qualification of test fixtures, test equipment, and test software
- Develop procedures, preventative maintenance plans, and troubleshooting guides to support production
- Develop and communicate system integration and evaluation strategies and plans in support of program learning, technical risk reduction, verification, and validation
Qualifications
- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Skills
Required:ProgrammingLinux/UnixCI/CDData analysisSystem integration and test
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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