Amazon Senior Payload Integration & Test Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

751782046

As a Sr. Payload I&T Engineer, you will be responsible for integration and test activities for various payload related features for the Kuiper satellite , ground gateway and the customer terminals.
You will work closely with colleagues throughout Project Kuiper’s wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary team to support both lab payload testing and troubleshooting and reproducing on-orbit issues in the lab. This will include test definition, execution, optimization and reporting of test data. You must be flexible, responsive, and able to succeed within a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
As a senior member of the Payload Integration and Test team, you will be responsible for verification and validation of the satellite payload including the ground gateway and customer terminals. This includes everything from integrating new features in lab with test equipment to getting features working end to end including ground service with the expected performance.Responsibilities:
- Conceptualize and execute a test campaign with functionality and performance. Engage with systems, hardware, and software development engineering teams to accomplish the following in pursuit of integration and testing: capture requirements, define use cases, work backwards from product strategy.
- Troubleshoot deeply: anticipate failures, collect data, analyze log files, compare models to observed behavior, root cause.
- Troubleshoot and root cause MAC to application layer throughput degradation and packet losses across the system.
- Support and reproduce on orbit functional and performance issues in the lab.
- Draft and maintain high quality documentation for program-level feedback: test verification matrix, status tracking, test runs for record.
- Enhance testing efficiency by automating test execution and analysis.Export Control Requirement:national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the
U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of satellite and/or cellular lab testing experience.
- Experience with Linux, basic networking skills, and RF lab equipment configuration.
- Experience with test development in Python or similar language.

- Master's/PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or related discipline.
- Software defined network implementations and network protocol extension.
- Experience with test equipment including spectrum analyzers, channel emulators, customer terminal simulators and vector signal analyzers/generators, etc.
- Proficiency with test development in Python.
- Experience with common database query. languages and viewing tools, such as SQL and Grafana.
- Experience with common AWS Cloud Services.
- Strong cross-functional coordination skills.