Payload Tools Engineer, Characterization and Operation for Payload System
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to the role's technical depth, competitive compensation and involvement with advanced integrated systems.
- Competitive salary: $151,300 - $261,500/year
- Opportunity to lead and create significant technical tools
- Engagement with advanced embedded systems and software tools
Pros
- Strong compensation range of $151,300 to $261,500/year with growth potential
- Engagement with cutting-edge technology in a leading organization (Amazon)
- Opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration enhancing professional exposure
Cons
- High expectations for experience (5+ years) and seniority may discourage new applicants
- Potential for high stress and workload due to ambitious project goals
- Possibility of extensive working hours during critical project phases
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Remote with collaboration required
Good fit
- Software engineers with strong tooling experience
- Tech leads looking to mentor junior engineers
- Innovators passionate about automation and development processes
Not recommended for
- Recent graduates without relevant industry experience
- Less experienced engineers not comfortable with leadership
- Individuals seeking purely theoretical roles without hands-on application
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
DESCRIPTION
As a build system and tooling software engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team in a daily basis to derive CI/CD, develop tools to automate progress, and integrate frameworks to enable large scale (embedded) software development. You will work closely with colleagues throughout Project Kuiper’s to integrate various SW packages and subsystems. You will be part of the lifecycle of the development and deployment of the final integrated product.
As a member of Kuiper Characterization and Operation for Payload System (COPS) team, you will be responsible for building embedded hooks required to inspect various KPIs in the protocol stacks, developing tools to automate most of the daily work, etc. During this process you will be interacting and communicating with cross-disciplinary teams across Kuiper project.
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.
Key job responsibilities
• Own and maintain the system(s) analyzer tools used by the COPS team
• Own and create tools that help the generation and manipulation of data sets, simulations, and payload system configuration files
• Implement developer-facing interfaces to automate manual tasks such as data generation, simulation setup, file transfers, remote hardware control, and other "boilerplate" actions
• Create and maintain documentation for developed tools, its corresponding interfaces and test cases
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- • Experience creating and managing build systems for multi-component, multiple architecture, C, C++, and Rust software projects with CMake or other similar Makefile automation tool on Linux
- • Experience with creating and managing developer-facing tools such as those for generating and validating data or automating manual developer processes
- • Experience with dependency management tools and integration with version control (e.g. Git), build systems, and CI/CD systems
- • Experience developing various user interfaces: command line utilities, web applications, and desktop GUIs
- • Experience with RF lab equipment such as spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and oscilloscopes
- • Familiarity of programming languages: Python
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
