Sr. Sys Dev Engineer, Kuiper Antenna Test Infrastructure

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.


As a Senior System Development Engineer, you will architect the HW/SW infrastructure for test automation for Satellite Payload Antennas and Customer Terminals. These products are complex systems that incorporate a Linux Embedded OS, with which you will interface.

You will be responsible for conducting thorough code reviews of both your own and others' merge requests while developing a comprehensive test framework. This framework will enable the creation, tracking, updating, and execution of repeatable, discoverable tests, while collecting critical measurements and streamlining test verification processes.

Your role will also involve designing Radio Frequency (RF) and Over The Air (OTA) test systems for antenna products, focusing on expanding test coverage, integrating complex testing scenarios, and improving test accuracies. Working hand in hand with Responsible Engineers (RE) who oversee antenna products and collaborating with our multidisciplinary antenna testing team, you will capture these efforts in detailed test procedures.

A key aspect of your position will be serving as a liaison between Software Teams, external resources (including test equipment vendors), and REs. In this capacity, you will establish and implement Aerospace validation and verification processes, incorporating automated testing into various procedures including Design Verification (DVT), Acceptance Testing (ATP), Qualification Testing (QTP), and Payload integration testing.



Key job responsibilities
- Design new antenna test systems using RF equipment (VSA, VSG, GNSS simulators, digitizers, switches), RF up/down-converters, FPGA-based Digitizers, and controllers of motorized and electrically switched axes.
- Inspect the control hardware currently installed, and use that information to architect and design an acquisition system with TTL and TCP/IP controls
- Determine automation requirements across the internal and external teams
- Develop test frameworks for loading software builds and configuration, managing test cases, storing test configurations, executing test runs, logging metrics, and pipe the data.
- Develop automation services to optimize measurements, data management and analysis for antenna and customer terminal verification
- Train internal and external teams on test automation


About the team
The Kuiper Antenna Test Infrastructure team provides the test systems and techniques to verify Payload, CT and full satellite vehicle hardware, integrates the test automation and connects the dots between Responsible Engineers and their product's test metrics. The team is a pivotal point for a multitude of other teams and orgs, our internal customers. And it's highly multidisciplinary: SysDE, SDE, ME, Metrology, Antenna, FPGA and Lab Ops all converge in the same room.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 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
- Strong sense of ownership and drive
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience with version control systems and code repositories
- Experience in development of hardware automation and test systems
- Experience with Hardware/Software system bring up and debugging
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers
- Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
- Experience with RF testing and equipment, like Spectrum Analyzers, VSA, VSG, GNSS simulators
- Experience in Signal Processing
- Experience building services using AWS products
- Excellent mathematical and problem-solving skills
- Highly accurate and detail-oriented

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.