Software Development Engineer, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer with exposure to AWS tools and services to help architect state-of-the-art data infrastructure and analytics solutions. Our team is responsible for core data infrastructure, ML/AI, and analytics tools that serve as the backbone for automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of on-orbit ops and manufacturing processes.

As a Project Kuiper Software Development Engineer you will own the development, implementation and test of software for data pipelines and storage across vehicle test teams. You will work with engineering teams across ground and space systems, to develop and maintain a data platform ingesting multiple data sources and help to ensure readiness for launch operations. You will be focused on building and maintaining infrastructure for data warehousing, loading, transformations and vending.

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of software and data engineering and data warehousing best practices

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
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation and support of a data warehousing platform.
• Lead design, implementation, and delivery of a data platform in ambiguous and complex problem spaces.
• Collaborate with internal and external customers to define and implement system architectures for integrated test venues.
• Build solutions to manage the many data sources needed to operate our system at large scale.
• Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what features and performance improvements to build.
• Instill best practices for software development documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, delivering high quality software on tight schedules
• Automating and maintaining complex ETL workflows


A day in the life
As a Project Kuiper Software Development Engineer you will own the development, implementation and test of software for data pipelines and storage across vehicle test teams. You will work with engineering teams across ground and space systems, to develop and maintain a data platform ingesting multiple data sources and help to ensure readiness for launch operations. You will be focused on building and maintaining infrastructure for data warehousing, loading, transformations and vending.

About the team
The Automated Vehicle Testing team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that will serve as the backbone of automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of manufacturing processes.