Description

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.

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.

The MAC-Software organization is primarily responsible for delivering the Medium Access Control (MAC) embedded software modules, which implement the Kuiper Radio Interface protocol stack and drive the operation of the Kuiper modems. The MAC layer is responsible for radio link establishment, teardown and multi-Gbps data transfers between the Kuiper Satellites and Ground Systems (Ground Gateways and Customer Terminals ) per control-plane contact orchestration and inter-operating with the phased-array antenna control systems for steering radio beams.

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Engineer in the MAC-Software organization you will own (1) delivering MAC-layer and the run-time platform features, (2) optimize performance of the MAC-Software while maintaining stability of the Kuiper payload on the satellites in the orbit and the ground systems and (3) help achieve the scale of Kuiper’s connectivity footprint to meet and exceed business KPIs (throughput, latency, packet loss etc.). You will work cross-functionally with the engineers across Systems Engineering, ASIC, hardware, networking, Payload integration and mission operations teams for designing, developing, integrating and testing MAC software features, troubleshoot issues reported from the lab and the field deployments.