Amazon
Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Amazon Leo
$168K–$227K
Austin, TX +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development, programming, and leading design or architecture; 5+ years of embedded firmware development. Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team. Preferred: 10+ years across the full software development life cycle.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent; a master’s degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.
- 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 and test frameworks for satellite and ground-system networking and management functions in Amazon Leo’s 5G NTN and Open RAN stack.
What you'll do
- Develop embedded software for satellite and ground systems supporting operation, validation, and management of a 3GPP 5G networking stack.
- Participate in all SDLC phases, from requirements and design through coding, testing, and coverage.
- Design, deploy, and operate satellite-payload networking functions in collaboration with software, validation, reliability, RF hardware, and silicon teams.
What they ask for
- Experience with real-time embedded software development and robust design practices; Linux and RTOS expertise.
- Experience in wireless system design and architecture, system integration, and RF system analysis.
- Experience writing low-level drivers and working in a Linux/Unix environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience developing cloud-native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS), or GitLab.
- Experience developing PHY/MAC-layer hardware/software for SoCs, FPGAs, and general-purpose processors, or building 3GPP-based wireless systems.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
3GPP 5G NTN, Open RAN, assembly, C, C++, Rust, Linux, RTOS
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