Senior Software Development Engineer, Battery Testing, Project Kuiper

Senior Software Development Engineer, Battery Testing, Project Kuiper

Job ID: 2899975 | Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Amazon's Project Kuiper is seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Battery team. In this role, you will be responsible for the full software product roadmap of prototype testing, the scale into production, and the database solutions that our test systems will use to store results to draw analytical conclusions.

You’ll be responsible for next generation system architecture from a blank slate as well as the continuous improvement of existing systems. You will be working closely with Design, Systems, Power, Reliability, and testing engineers to design, deploy, and optimize state-of-the-art satellite test systems.

You would participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and test to operations. You will be designing and implementing a wide range of low-level software on our custom test hardware and its interfaces with our cloud-based services.

Key job responsibilities

1. Understand functional principles of Kuiper satellite power systems hardware.
2. Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, and implementation of test solutions for satellite battery systems in an ambiguous and complex problem space.
3. Build software solutions to manage infrastructure needed to operate our system in a scrappy development environment and also in production at a large scale.
4. Collaborate with internal and external customers to define and implement system architectures for power systems integrated test venues.
5. Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what features and performance improvements to build.
6. Lead software design architecture for the test of Kuiper battery test and emulation systems (specifically the testing battery management systems, custom circuit boards, battery emulators).
7. Design and develop complex test sequences that coordinate and synchronize equipment and services across multiple layers to verify function and performance of satellite hardware and software.
8. Instill best practices for software development documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, delivering high quality software on tight schedules.
9. Automate build, test, and deploy pipelines.

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

1. Battery Management System (BMS) Testing: Develop and maintain automated test software for BMS validation, including the configuration and control of battery testing racks and emulators.
2. Automated Reporting: Create tools for automated data collection, analysis, pass/fail, and reporting. Design and implement solutions for live data broadcasting to make test data accessible to stakeholders in real-time.
3. Unit Test Development: Develop comprehensive unit test frameworks to validate software code independently of hardware. Emulate data acquisition systems, power supplies, batteries, thermal, and thermal vacuum chambers to enable software testing without physical hardware.

About the team

The battery design organization is a product-oriented team that has been empowered to be entrepreneurial and nimble. The team owns the battery product life cycle from cell selection to electrical interconnection, to pack structural design and test. We work with partner teams to define requirements, execute test campaigns to verify and validate our designs, and scale from new product introduction into full rate manufacturing.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
2. 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
3. 4+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
4. 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
5. Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
6. Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems and working on GNU/Linux distributions, including deployment automation.
7. 3+ years of experience building software with hardware interfaces such as test infrastructure for data acquisition, power supplies, and industrial sensors/actuators.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
2. 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
3. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or similar, with experience in multithreaded programming in Python.
4. Experience with HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) systems, automated test frameworks.
5. Experience with model unit testing frameworks and tools.
6. Familiarity with environmental testing equipment (e.g., thermal chambers, thermal vacuum chambers, Shaker tables, DAQs, Battery Cyclers, Battery Emulators, etc).
7. Fundamental understanding of battery management systems and testing protocols.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit here. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.