Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

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As a Senior System Development Engineer, you will architect the HW/SW infrastructure for test automation for Satellite Payload Antennas and Customer Terminals. These products are complex systems that incorporate a Linux Embedded OS, with which you will interface.

You will be responsible for conducting thorough code reviews of both your own and others' merge requests while developing a comprehensive test framework. This framework will enable the creation, tracking, updating, and execution of repeatable, discoverable tests, while collecting critical measurements and streamlining test verification processes.

Your role will also involve designing Radio Frequency (RF) and Over The Air (OTA) test systems for antenna products, focusing on expanding test coverage, integrating complex testing scenarios, and improving test accuracies. Working hand in hand with Responsible Engineers (RE) who oversee antenna products and collaborating with our multidisciplinary antenna testing team, you will capture these efforts in detailed test procedures.

A key aspect of your position will be serving as a liaison between Software Teams, external resources (including test equipment vendors), and REs. In this capacity, you will establish and implement Aerospace validation and verification processes, incorporating automated testing into various procedures including Design Verification (DVT), Acceptance Testing (ATP), Qualification Testing (QTP), and Payload integration testing.


Key job responsibilities
- Design new antenna test systems using RF equipment (VSA, VSG, GNSS simulators, digitizers, switches), RF up/down-converters, FPGA-based Digitizers, and controllers of motorized and electrically switched axes.
- Inspect the control hardware currently installed, and use that information to architect and design an acquisition system with TTL and TCP/IP controls
- Determine automation requirements across the internal and external teams
- Develop test frameworks for loading software builds and configuration, managing test cases, storing test configurations, executing test runs, logging metrics, and pipe the data.
- Develop automation services to optimize measurements, data management and analysis for antenna and customer terminal verification
- Train internal and external teams on test automation


About the team
The Kuiper Antenna Test Infrastructure team provides the test systems and techniques to verify Payload, CT and full satellite vehicle hardware, integrates the test automation and connects the dots between Responsible Engineers and their product's test metrics. The team is a pivotal point for a multitude of other teams and orgs, our internal customers. And it's highly multidisciplinary: SysDE, SDE, ME, Metrology, Antenna, FPGA and Lab Ops all converge in the same room.