Build production AI systems that transform how Amazon manufactures satellites. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to architect the manufacturing intelligence platform connecting satellite design, production, test, quality, and on-orbit operations into a unified digital thread.
You will build systems for AI-assisted non-conformance disposition, closed-loop root-cause analysis, predictive test optimization, and integrated inspection intelligence. Your work will help engineers understand failures faster, prevent repeat defects, improve production quality, and increase confidence across Amazon's satellite constellation.
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.
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 the morning with Quality and Manufacturing Engineering SMEs to understand how engineers handle recurring non-conformances. You then refine a design for retrieval, evaluation, and data contracts across partner systems. Later, you review a teammate's root-cause analysis workflow design, simplify an interface partner teams will consume, and add audit requirements. You may end the day prototyping a tool that retrieves manufacturing context, produces grounded recommendations with cited evidence, and routes low-confidence cases to human review.
About the team
Leo Satellite Build Systems builds the software foundation for satellite production. We connect architecture, design, manufacturing, test, validation, quality, and on-orbit operations into a single digital thread. Our mission is to turn fragmented manufacturing, inspection, quality, supplier, and fleet data into a living intelligence platform. We move quickly, but do not ship prototypes as production systems. We use AI where it creates leverage, and insist on evaluation, traceability, and human judgment where the consequences require it.
