Network Engineer, Project Kuiper

4 weeks ago


Redmond, Washington, United States Amazon Full time
Job Description

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.

Come work at Amazon as a Payload Integration and Test Network Engineer, responsible for the Kuiper system data-path/network verification, support the implementation and validation sign-off of various software interface requirements and modem architectures.

You will be working in a collaborative environment with a multi-disciplinary team and 3rd party partners from development to productization of various Kuiper products.

Responsibilities
  • Conceptualize and execute a test campaign with specific focus on network functionality and performance.
  • Engage with systems, hardware, and software development engineering teams to accomplish the following in pursuit of network integration and testing: capture requirements, define use cases, work backwards from product strategy.
  • End to end network, data and control plane testing to include ground, satellite and customer terminals.
  • Troubleshoot deeply: anticipate failures, collect data, analyze log files, compare models to observed behavior, root cause.
  • Troubleshoot and root cause throughput degradation and packet losses across the system.
  • Support and reproduce on orbit networking and data plane issues in the lab.
  • Utilize AWS cloud resources as well as commercial-off-the-shelf test equipment: program, instrument, and automate.
  • Draft and maintain high quality documentation for program-level feedback: test verification matrix, status tracking, test runs for record.
  • Enhance testing efficiency by automating test execution and analysis.

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.

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of Internet Protocols networking experience.
  • 3+ years of experience with satellite and/or cellular network testing.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's/PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or related discipline.
  • Software defined network implementations and network protocol extension.
  • 3+ years developing networking hardware and software.
  • Wireless communication theory and practice.
  • Programming in an object-oriented language (Python preferred).
  • Protocol analysis for quality assurance metrics and monitoring.
  • Application development for telecommunications systems.
  • Experience building and maintaining networks, coordinating handoffs, provisioning resources.

Software suites: AWS, Microsoft Office, Atlassian, Linux, Wireshark.

Network load testing, stress testing, L2 and L3 testing, L4 through L7 testing.

Modeling, simulation, emulation of IP networks.

Video distribution over IP.



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