Amazon
Embedded Software Engineer, Leo Payload Radio
$144K–$194K
Sunnyvale, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Mar 20, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Redmond, WA
San Diego, CA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 3+ years developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software.
- 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 and operate embedded software for satellite payload radio, mode management, and security capabilities across the satellite lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and integrate embedded software for payload radio and payload mode management in an embedded Linux system.
- Work with hardware teams on board design, bring-up, verification, integration, and testing.
- Develop reliable satellite software supporting security and satellite communication payload functions.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 3+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, embedded Linux
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