Senior Technical Program Manager, Embedded Satellite Platform

About the role

Amazon Leo 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. 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. This position is with Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC in Redmond, WA, USA.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Satellite Embedded software development.
• Work with product/program management to ensure that development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
• Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.
• Aggregate and convert technical specifications for Leo's Satellite Embedded software systems.
• Establish mechanisms to manage scrums, tasks, budgets, dashboards, schedule and overall delivery.
• Map HW / SW co-dependencies and track accuracy of plans and technical developments for all major milestones.
• Build and scale Project Leo’s Embedded Satellite software development programs; accountable for creating and working the complex multi-subsystem program plan for the development, test and delivery of Leo's Satellite system, and their integration with rest of Leo system for delivering an end-to-end network solution with an exceptional quality of experience for our customers.

About the Team

The Team is responsible for Architecture, design and delivering end‑to‑end Embedded System Software for both constellation and ground, as well as the services that utilize the network to deliver last mile and back‑haul internet services.

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams.
• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management.
• 3+ years of software development experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $148,700.00 – $201,200.00 USD annually. 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.

Benefits

• 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
• Parental leave