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

The Role
The Project Kuiper team is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager with experience in aerospace/satellite communications/networking software, project management, and program management. The role will interface with cross-functional engineering and program/product management teams with primary focus on delivering top quality Satellite Payload and Data Plane software. Join us and make a difference to people around the world.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Satellite Payload and Data Plane software development.
- Work with product/program management to ensure that development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
- Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
- Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.
- Aggregate and convert technical specifications for Kuiper's Satellite Payload and Data Plane software systems
- Establish mechanisms to manage scrums, tasks, budgets, dashboards, schedule and overall delivery for the Satellite Payload and Data Plane software
- Map HW / SW co-dependencies and track accuracy of plans and technical developments for all major milestones

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.



A day in the life
In this role, you will build and scale Project Kuiper’s Satellite Payload and Data Plane software development programs. You are accountable for creating and working the complex multi-subsystem program plan for the development, test and delivery of Kuiper's Satellite Payload system and Data Plane, and their integration with rest of Kuiper system for delivering an end-to-end network solution with an exceptional quality of experience for our customers.

About the team
The Team is responsible for Architecture, design and delivering and end to end Networking systems for both constellation and ground, as well as the services that utilize the network to delivery last mile and back-haul internet services.