Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer Battery Testing Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

20597416

You’ll be responsible for next generation system architecture from a blank slate as well as the continuous improvement of existing systems.You will be working closely with Design, Systems, Power, Reliability, and testing engineers to design, deploy, and optimize state-of-the-art satellite test systems.You would participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and test to operations.You will be designing and implementing a wide range of low-level software on our custom test hardware and its interfaces with our cloud based services.
Key job responsibilities
- Understand functional principles of Kuiper satellite power systems hardware
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development and implementation of test solutions for satellite battery systems in an ambiguous and complex problem space.
- Build software solutions to manage infrastructure needed to operate our system in a scrappy development environment and also in production at a large scale.- Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what features and performance improvements to build.
- Lead software design architecture for the test of Kuiper battery test and emulation systems (specifically the testing battery management systems, custom circuit boards, battery emulators).
- Design and develop complex test sequences that coordinate and synchronize equipment and services across multiple layers to verify function and performance of satellite hardware and software.
- Instill best practices for software development documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, delivering high quality software on tight schedules.
- Automate build, test and deploy pipelines.
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A day in the life
- Battery Management System (BMS) Testing: Develop and maintain automated test software for BMS validation, including the configuration and control of battery testing racks and emulators.
- Unit Test Development: Develop comprehensive unit test frameworks to validate software code independently of hardware. Emulate data acquisition systems, power supplies, batteries, thermal, and thermal vacuum chambers to enable software testing without physical hardware.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 4+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems and working on Experience working on GNU/Linux distributions, including deployment automation
- 3+ years of experience building software with hardware interfaces such as test infrastructure for data acquisition, power supplies, and industrial sensors/actuators

- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or similar, with experience in multithreaded programming in Python.
- Experience with HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) systems, automated test frameworks
- Experience with model unit testing frameworks and tools
- Familiarity with environmental testing equipment (e.g., thermal chambers, thermal vacuum chambers, Shaker tables, DAQs, Battery Cyclers, Battery Emulators, etc).
- Fundamental understanding of battery management systems and testing protocols.