Amazon
Embedded Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
San Diego, CA - Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 3+ years embedded firmware development; 2+ years Yocto/OpenEmbedded or comparable build system. Preferred: 5+ years full software development life cycle; 3+ years on networking and/or consumer devices; 2+ years manufacturing diagnostics.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Develop embedded software for Amazon Leo satellite and ground systems, including device drivers, Linux platform features, and system applications.
What you'll do
- Develop embedded software, device drivers, and system applications for satellite systems and microcontrollers.
- Build and maintain embedded Linux distributions, kernel drivers, device-tree overlays, and secure boot and update mechanisms.
- Support hardware bring-up and integration testing, and debug hardware-software issues.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 3+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
- 2+ years of experience with Yocto/OpenEmbedded or a comparable embedded Linux build system.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Experience with embedded Linux, Yocto, and/or bare-metal targets; eBPF/libbpf or Lua tooling; or manufacturing diagnostics through HVT, EVT, DVT, or PVT.
Pay
USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually base salary; USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually base salary
Tools
C, C++, Python, Linux kernel, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, BitBake, SPI, I3C
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