Amazon
Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide
low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. As a Systems Engineer, this role is primarily responsible for the design, development and integration of communication payload and customer terminal systems.
The Role:
Be part of the team defining the overall communication system and architecture of Amazon
Leo’s broadband wireless network. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and define groundbreaking wireless technology at global scale. The team develops and designs the communication system for
Leo and analyzes its overall system level performance such as for overall throughput, latency, system availability, packet loss etc.
This role in particular will be responsible for leading the effort in designing and developing advanced technology and solutions for communication system. This role will also be responsible developing advanced physical layer + protocol stacks systems as proof of concept and reference implementation to improve the performance and reliability of the
LEO network. In particular this role will be responsible for using concepts from digital signal processing, information theory, wireless communications to develop novel solutions for achieving ultra-high performance
LEO network. This role will also be part of a team and develop simulation tools with particular emphasis on modeling the physical layer aspects such as advanced receiver modeling and abstraction, interference cancellation techniques, FEC abstraction models etc. This role will also play a critical role in the integration and verification of various HW and SW sub-systems as a part of system integration and link bring-up and verification.
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.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
- 3+ years of wireless communications systems and implementation experience
- Knowledge of multiple access systems including OFDMA, TDMA, and CDMA
- Experience in test setup automation using
MATLAB,
Python, or Pearl
- Must have the ability to work in a small team and drive to
go beyond expectations to deliver results
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