Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

As a Sr. Software Development Engineer you will own the development, implementation, and test of the operational procedures and tooling built to execute the Kuiper mission. You will work with engineering teams across ground and space systems, to understand how the system functions and deliver an integrated solution to prepare for and execute the mission. Because of the scale of the mission, you will be focused on driving automation and operational excellence — identifying areas of improvement and initiating changes to improve the productivity of the fleet.

You will prepare for each launch and on-orbit demonstration, design and conduct operational rehearsals, and drive automation efforts with scalability in mind, ensuring that the constellation functions at peak performance with limited manual intervention. You work alongside flight directors to design and implement concepts of operation for missions and experiments, execute launch and early operations, develop and perform analysis on system data, build tooling to support operators, and identify areas and mechanisms for further improvement.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, have strong organizational skills, able to work independently, juggle multiple tasks at once, and maintain professionalism under pressure. You should have deep knowledge software engineering practices, understand how software and hardware systems interact, and can drive design and implementation of operational execution of objectives in complex systems. Familiarity with space systems is desired.

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.


About the team
The Mission operations Software Services team works across Kuiper to ensure we are able to successfully execute and iteratively improve on our on-orbit operations to deliver highly reliable customer service. We design and implement operational procedures and software that support mission operations and automation software and execute mission operations and demonstrations on-orbit. We analyze system performance and look for ways to drive improvement across the program to deliver the best customer experience possible.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA