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The Role You will own the full software development lifecycle, end to end.
Description Are you ready to work at the intersection of advanced spacecraft flight software and AI-native engineering?
We are reinventing how flight software is built for Amazon's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation — bringing AI-native development to one of the most demanding real-time domains in engineering. Our toolkit spans agentic development workflows, coding agents (Kiro, Claude Code, Codex), agent harnesses, and the LLM optimization that powers them — applied to software that flies.
You will own the full software development lifecycle, end to end. This is greenfield territory: no playbook exists for AI-native flight software development, and you will help write it. We're looking for pioneers eager to lead this transformation. You won't do it alone — you'll work alongside distinguished engineers from the front lines of the space industry with 20+ years of flight software experience, and seasoned LLM engineers, all committed to coaching, mentoring, and growing new talent. Bring solid engineering fundamentals and the heart of a lion; we'll provide the rest.
Build, deploy, and optimize AI-native development systems — agentic workflows, agent harnesses, and LLM optimization — for flight software in the space industry
Develop embedded software in C/C++ on a real-time operating system (RTOS), and cloud software on Linux
Write device drivers and system applications for flight code and flight management
Partner closely with hardware teams on board bring-up and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integration testing
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.
Are you ready to work at the intersection of advanced spacecraft flight software and AI-native engineering?
We are reinventing how flight software is built for Amazon's low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation — bringing
AI-native development to one of the most demanding real-time domains in engineering. Our toolkit spans agentic
development workflows, coding agents (Kiro, Claude Code, Codex), agent harnesses, and the LLM optimization that powers
them — applied to software that flies.
You will own the full software development lifecycle, end to end. This is greenfield territory: no playbook exists for
AI-native flight software development, and you will help write it. We're looking for pioneers eager to lead this
transformation. You won't do it alone — you'll work alongside distinguished engineers from the front lines of the space
industry with 20+ years of flight software experience, and seasoned LLM engineers, all committed to coaching, mentoring,
and growing new talent. Bring solid engineering fundamentals and the heart of a lion; we'll provide the rest.
Build, deploy, and optimize AI-native development systems — agentic workflows, agent harnesses, and LLM optimization —
for flight software in the space industry
Develop embedded software in C/C++ on a real-time operating system (RTOS), and cloud software on Linux
Write device drivers and system applications for flight code and flight management
Partner closely with hardware teams on board bring-up and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integration testing
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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