Space and Satellite Network Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon has created some of the most game changing technologies in the world. Are you passionate about building, owning and operating space, launch, and satellite networks and ready to build another game-changing technology? If the answer is yes, then Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an exciting opportunity for you.

AWS Region Services is seeking a talented, innovative, and solutions-oriented network development engineer to help innovate and disrupt launch vehicle and satellite ground and space processing systems. The ideal candidate will have experience in developing worldwide networks of space, launch, and satellite ground, hardware and software systems as well as architectures and technologies that are robust and easy to deploy and operate. For this role, we are seeking Satellite Network Development Engineers to network space into our Data Centers. Our team is responsible for bringing all forms of space into Amazon's massive-scale data center networks. Our space networks provide high bandwidth and low latency solutions for networking launch vehicles, aggregating satellite systems, inter-connecting space system networks, and enabling management and monitoring of all satellite control network devices and critical data center infrastructure. Engineers in this organization define the hardware, physical topologies, architectures and software control systems for these satellite control networks. Engineers on this team make day-to-day and strategic decisions that drive huge programs with a global impact. If you want to change the space world, we'd love to hear from you!

The AWS team will look to this technical leader for advice and engineering guidance on the issues associated with designing, building and operating a global network of space and satellite systems as part of AWS as well as the business issues associated with scheduling and optimizing thousands of launch vehicle and satellite operations a day. This role will apply deep domain knowledge of satellite system ground hardware, satellite control networks, space processing software, antennas, and space operations in order to deliver global satellite systems and networks that can reliably support an international set of space customers.

We are inventing the space networks of the future, so our engineers require a deep background in satellite processing algorithms and formatting techniques that process payload Level-0 data to produce higher-level products. The ideal candidate for this team will have a knowledge of satellite phased shift keying (PSK) protocols such as 2-PSK, QPSK, 8-PSK, as well as amplitude and phase-shift keying or asymmetric phase-shift keying (APSK) to increase the symbol-set to 32 and 64 bits.
The candidate will also be grounded in FPGAs, GPUs, ASICs, optics and router system design as well as extensive experience designing and implementing satellite processing systems that process high volumes of high data-rate information. We're interested in engineers with experience having designed, operated, and implemented satellite and launch vehicle networks of very large scale. We're looking for those who have pushed satellites, rockets, platforms and protocols to their limits.

In addition to fundamental satellite and launch vehicle networking skills our engineers must:

· Be able to work with the Software Development Engineering team to ensure AWS services seamlessly integrate multiple satellite ground systems. Bring some proficiency in Python, Perl, C, or Shell Scripting.
· Be experienced working in large projects to completion, either as project manager or lead. NDEs are expected to self-manage several projects at a time, providing regular status updates and identifying and pushing through obstacles to build something truly new.
· Know how to run a tight, lean, efficient operation. The right candidate will want to measure everything and use data to drive decision. He/she will excel at using metrics, monitoring, and alarming to measure and improve the operational processes and performance of their team and the availability of their system.
· Be cross-disciplinary and accustomed to "working across the organization." This candidate will work with hardware, software and customer organizations across Amazon, translating customer and business requirements into actual technical solutions.
· Have a strong understanding of Software Development, Linux, Digital Signal Processing, Satellite Ground System and Networking Technologies. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or software development engineer with networks, satellite systems, and satellite ground systems. You will enjoy keeping your technical skills current, to the point that you can lead architecture discussions. You will like to build systems and networks that bring AWS to the edge and regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises to drive technical post-mortem discussions and identify the root cause of complex issues.
· Be great fun to work with. Our company credo is “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.” The right candidate will love what they do and instinctively know how to make work fun.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Minimum 5+ years of satellite or ground network and systems engineering experience
· Advanced understanding of satellite communications, networks, and protocols
· Demonstrated understanding of digital signal processing, antennas, and automated ground system development and operations
· Demonstrated understanding of best practices for network and system management
· Demonstrated understanding of highly available environments, both locally and in the cloud
· Able to learn new technology quickly, become the expert, solve the problem and teach others
· This position requires that applicant selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain a TS/SCI US Government clearance with polygraph. TS/SCI eligibility is not required to start; however, the applicant selected will be subject to a Single-Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified national security information. Applicants with a current SSBI, SBPR, or PPR, may be eligible for crossover in accordance with ICPG 704.4