Software Development Engineer, Automated Vehicle Testing

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $143,700–$194,400 / yr
Posted: 21 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $169k

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This role pays less than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $147,925–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $169k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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About Amazon Inc

Amazon Inc. is the world''s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, operating the Amazon marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription services, Alexa voice AI, and logistics infrastructure. Industry: E-Commerce & Cloud Computing

Amazon Inc currently has 457 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Software Development Engineer, Automated Vehicle Testing

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As a Software Development Engineer, Automated Vehicle Testing, you will join the Automated Vehicle Testing team to build core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone for automated satellite testing operations. You will develop production-quality code across front-end interfaces, backend services, data infrastructure, and AI/ML layers to transform satellite telemetry into actionable decisions. Your daily work involves building intelligent systems to detect anomalies, designing retrieval systems using dense vector embeddings and sparse representations, and creating a scalable S3-based data lake with automated metadata management. You will also develop natural language systems for querying complex system states and low-latency visualization platforms. The role requires proficiency in C#, C++, Java, or Perl, along with experience in object-oriented design, machine learning, information retrieval, and developing distributed software to solve problems related to satellite hardware, flight software, and ground gateway systems.

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Skills

AWS S3 C# C++ Java Perl Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Information Retrieval Data Infrastructure Vector Embeddings Object Oriented Design Source Control Management

What you'll do

Develop production-quality code for front-end interfaces, back-end services, data infrastructure, and AI/ML layers.
Build intelligent systems to ingest telemetry and detect real-time anomalies or predict failures in satellite hardware.
Create automated agents to trace root causes across satellite buses, ground stations, and other multi-system components.
Design natural language systems that fuse real-time telemetry with historical data for context-aware engineering queries.
Implement retrieval systems using vector embeddings and sparse representations for semantic search across petabytes of data.
Build a scalable S3-based data lake featuring intelligent metadata management and automated lineage tracking.
Develop low-latency data visualization platforms to help engineers monitor high-cardinality datasets and satellite behaviors.

What we're looking for

Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or granted asylum/refugee status for export control compliance.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2+ years of experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
1+ years of experience developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics, or natural language processing (preferred).
3+ years of full software development life cycle experience including coding standards, code reviews, source control, and build processes (preferred).