Software Development Manager, Integrated Vehicle Testing

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

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.

As a leader of the Satellite Test Design team, you will lead and engage an experienced, cross‑disciplinary team to conceive, develop, implement, and operate frameworks and services for testing integrated satellite components.

As a manager of the team you will play a crucial role in ensuring Leo's readiness for manufacturing and launch through detailed and efficient test operations. You will work closely with internal engineering and manufacturing teams across ground and space systems to help architect and implement advanced test infrastructure and code.

• Build, lead, and manage a diverse team of engineers focused on development frameworks and production services to support satellite manufacturing environments while leveraging technologies such as Python, Docker, and AWS technologies (e.g., APIGW, ECS, ECR, CDK, S3, IAM, and Cloud Front).
• Provide technical guidance for the team in addressing projects with broad scope and limited definition to ensure test and design objectives are met.
• Define team growth expectations and organization strategy.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure team and project success.
• Develop innovative hardware, software, and processes to optimize and improve testing capabilities and processes.
• Provide technical leadership for integration campaigns and collaborate with responsible engineers, manufacturing engineers, software developers, and tooling teams to deliver a thoroughly tested spacecraft ready for launch.
• Communicate fluidly across a variety of teams to identify product risks and how they will be addressed to ensure mission success.
• Juggle multiple priorities while optimizing the system and schedule.
• Apply critical thinking in complex situations and ambiguous environments.
• Conduct cause of error analysis and drive issue resolutions to improve team and process performance.

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, scaling).
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective product software engineers.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also 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(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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USA, WA, Redmond - $ - $ USD annually