Senior Software Engineer, Leo Satellite Build Intelligence

About Amazon Leo

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.

Role Overview

Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of major components of Leo's manufacturing intelligence platform.
• Convert ambiguous manufacturing, quality, and test problems into clear technical options, written designs, delivery plans, and measurable success criteria.
• Build production software that connects satellite build data, test outcomes, inspection signals, quality records, supplier data, engineering changes, and on-orbit telemetry.
• Design AI-native workflows that combine deterministic software, retrieval systems, foundation models, agentic tool use, human review, auditability, and safety guardrails.
• Create evaluation mechanisms that measure AI workflow quality before production use, including accuracy, groundedness, confidence, escalation behavior, latency, and regression risk.
• Define APIs, data contracts, integration patterns, and reusable platform primitives that partner teams can build on.
• Lead design reviews and code reviews across the team and adjacent teams.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen the team through technical guidance, mechanisms, and hands-on code contributions.

A Day in the Life

• You may start your day with Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering to understand how teams manage a complex manufacturing process qualification or supplier-readiness workflow.
• You then translate those requirements into workflow states, data contracts, automation opportunities, and integrations across partner systems.
• Later, you may lead the design of an automated qualification workflow, review an AI-assisted decision workflow with partner teams, or simplify a critical interface.
• You will work at the intersection of software engineering, AI, manufacturing, and supply chain to eliminate manual handoffs, accelerate critical workflows, and help scale satellite production.

About the Team

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience designing or building software systems that use generative AI, machine learning, search, or retrieval-based techniques.
• Experience working with customers, stakeholders, or partner teams to clarify requirements and deliver software systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Experience building GenAI-enabled applications using retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, model orchestration, structured outputs, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop review.
• Experience designing systems that require traceability, explainability, auditability, compliance, or high-confidence decision support.
• Experience building distributed systems, data-intensive applications, workflow platforms, search systems, knowledge systems, or internal platforms used by multiple teams.
• Experience influencing technical direction across teams through written design documents, architecture reviews, code reviews, and constructive disagreement.
• Experience working in manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, industrial systems, quality systems, test systems, supply chain, hardware production, or another complex physical-world domain.

Compensation

• The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• USA, CA, El Segundo - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually.
• USA, WA, Bellevue - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually.

Benefits

• Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401