Amazon is Hiring a Systems Development Engineer with Security Clearance Near Arlington, VA
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. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will work within the Regulatory Analysis and Systems Engineering team to: 1. Develop automated data retrieval tools to obtain external publicly-available information to be used both for situational awareness and to configure Kuiper operational mechanisms; 2. Implement data repositories to keep track of data, constraints, and configurations; 3. Implement deployment mechanisms using automated machine-to-machine interfaces to facilitate safe and efficient deployments of regulatory constraints to operational systems in accordance with CI/CD best practices; 4. Support the development of team-internal software tools used to analyze satellite system behavior and to determine and optimize Kuiper system operational constraints. This includes tools to facilitate satellite communications modelling and simulation, geospatial visualizations, and data analytics; 5. Develop operational monitoring tools to ingest logs and poll status for system behavior validation, optimization, and early detection & reporting of issues to on-call staff. 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.