Project Kuiper 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.

The Role:
Be part of Project Kuiper’s sub-team responsible for defining and implementing the digital chip SOCs for communications via Low Earth Orbit satellites and Amazon gateways. This is a unique opportunity to define a groundbreaking wireless solution with few legacy constraints. The team works with customer requirements and wireless system teams to define modems, high-speed interfaces, embedded processors, and DSP solutions in latest CMOS generation technologies.

In this role you will:
· Implement a state of the art verification environment to facilitate testing of the RTL against reference Matlab/C models
· Develop detailed test plans and write tests, run regressions, collect coverage matrices and report progress to the program
· Participate in the validation of FPGAs using test benches, which can be reused for the ASIC implementation
· Run formal verification of complex blocks to ensure functional correctness
· Work with the design and communication systems team and participate in system level verification using test benches constructed using UVM, System C and DPI-C
· Develop a highly automated environment to run regressions that can be used to make builds and maintain organization of the database


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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Diego, CA, USA

Project Kuiper 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 Sr. Electrical Engineer, you will engage with a world class cross-disciplinary team to design innovative solutions. You will work closely with colleagues throughout Project Kuiper in order to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
• Decompose system level requirements into realizable hardware requirements. Design and develop a solution that meets these requirements.
• Design, develop, and optimize electrical hardware for use in space.
• Simulate and optimize EE circuits, perform schematic capture, and oversee layout.
• Build up test bench for design verification.
• Evaluate and optimize design in the lab to demonstrate design meets with system requirements.
• Work with RF system, power, software, mechanical thermal, reliability and compliance teams to ensure solution integrates with overall platform requirements.

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.


A day in the life
You will regularly interact with other engineers to realize microwave hardware designs that will fly in space. This requires the ability to work well with others in a highly cross-functional organization.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Diego, CA, USA

Project Kuiper 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.

Come work at Amazon!

The Role:

Be part of the team defining the wireless modem of Project Kuiper’s broadband wireless system from customer end points to terrestrial gateways via Low Earth Orbit satellites. This is a unique opportunity to define a groundbreaking wireless solution with few legacy constraints. The team works with customer requirements and wireless implementation teams to define a modem solution that optimizes spectrum efficiency, ability to support diverse set of customer link requirements / environments, minimizes BER / packet retries, and support for flexible MAC architecture.

In this role you will:
- Work within a team and take responsibility for high bandwidth wireless system architecture
- Create documentation defining modem block’s function, interfaces, and implementation requirements
- Drive trade-off analyst / simulation to benefit customer experience and optimization of resources (costs, power, spectrum)
- Work closely with implementation teams to verify the design, evaluate expected system level performance and provide quick feedback on potential improvements




Key job responsibilities
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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Diego, CA, USA

Project Kuiper 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.

The Role:
As Senior RFIC Design Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative product solutions. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and third party suppliers to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

As a member of the RFIC team, you will be responsible for the architectural definition, design, simulation, layout, extracted simulation of mm-wave transmitters and receivers. You'll be responsible for the full system from front-end amplifier to the data converter. Strong focus will be on creating the most power optimized solution for a given system performance.

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
- Collaborate with communications systems, digital design, and chip implementation teams.
- Actively engage with foundries to evaluate process technologies for power and performance.
- Explore architectures for mm-wave and RF circuits like VCOs, mixers, phase shifters, LO distribution, ADCs, DACs, PLLs, DLLs, SERDES, frequency multipliers and dividers, and envelope/power detectors, and make detailed presentations on power/area/performance tradeoffs.
- Define radio calibration routines for impairments like IQ-imbalance, LOFT, filter cutoffs, capacitor banks, and resistor variation.
- Design and simulate on-chip inductors and baluns in tools such as EMX or HFSS.
- Perform circuit layout, RLC extraction, and run extracted simulation across various corners to make sure designs are robust and can be taken to volume production.
- Collaborate with the digital design team to define analog/digital boundary requirements for circuit calibration, clock generation, and timing.
- Refine existing RFIC design flow methodologies.
- Design supporting circuits such as bandgaps, opamps, bias distribution networks, and LDOs.
- Specify bench and production test plans for your designs.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Diego, CA, USA

Project Kuiper 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.

The Role:
Be part of Project Kuiper’s sub-team responsible for defining and implementing the digital chip SOCs for communications via Low Earth Orbit satellites and Amazon gateways. This is a unique opportunity to define a groundbreaking wireless solution with few legacy constraints. The team works with customer requirements and wireless system teams to define modems, high-speed interfaces, embedded processors, and DSP solutions in latest CMOS generation technologies.

In this role you will:
· Implement a state of the art verification environment to facilitate testing of the RTL against reference Matlab/C models
· Develop detailed test plans and write tests, run regressions, collect coverage matrices and report progress to the program
· Participate in the validation of FPGAs using test benches, which can be reused for the ASIC implementation
· Run formal verification of complex blocks to ensure functional correctness
· Work with the design and communication systems team and participate in system level verification using test benches constructed using UVM, System C and DPI-C
· Develop a highly automated environment to run regressions that can be used to make builds and maintain organization of the database


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.