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DESCRIPTION

Project Kuiper is Amazon's effort to launch a group of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide fast, affordable broadband to communities globally. Our Customer Terminal (CT) antenna team is creating leading phased array technologies to link users to the Kuiper satellite network from almost anywhere on Earth.

In this role as a Senior Network Development Engineer (Sr. NDE), you will design novel network automation services that will be used for monitoring, troubleshooting, debugging Kuiper Satellite Network. As a Sr. NDE you will also be responsible for performing extensive lab testing of hardware and software, research, design to ensure the satellite network is optimal and meets customers need.

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.

Key job responsibilities
Sr. Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and/or systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices application, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.
• Collaborate with vendors/manufacturers to evaluate new hardware and software features. Create implementations plans for incorporating them into the network.
• Work with cross functional teams to gather requirements and design software and hardware products.
• Automate optical test plans and qualify optical modules.
• Network automation to build alarming system, alarming correlation, troubleshooting runbooks, debug/diagnostics tools, complex dashboards.
• Perform on-call rotation to provide monitoring, troubleshooting and escalation support.


A day in the life
Your day begins reviewing network monitoring alerts across manufacturing facilities and mission operations centers. You'll analyze metrics to ensure testing in manufacturing, labs are as desired. You will work in mission operations center to ensure Satellite network health is optimal and will take troubleshooting or mitigation actions as per established procedures. You will also own multiple projects that will include developing software tools for automate the testing procedures, tools for troubleshooting, debug and diagnostics of network faults. You will work in the lab as required to develop new test plans or test a set of hardware or software features. You will participate in discussion with cross functional teams to collaborate and develop hardware or software solutions.

About the team
Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.