# Software Development Engineer, Flight Software AI

Are you ready to work at the intersection of advanced spacecraft flight software and AI-native engineering? We are reinventing how flight software is built for Amazon's low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation - bringing AI-native development to one of the most demanding real-time domains in engineering. Our toolkit spans agentic development workflows, coding agents (Kiro, Claude Code, Codex), agent harnesses, and the LLM optimization that powers them - applied to software that flies. The Role You will own the full software development lifecycle, end to end. This is greenfield territory: no playbook exists for AI-native flight software development, and you will help write it. We're looking for pioneers eager to lead this transformation. You won't do it alone - you'll work alongside distinguished engineers from the front lines of the space industry with 20+ years of flight software experience, and seasoned LLM engineers, all committed to coaching, mentoring, and growing new talent. Bring solid engineering fundamentals and the heart of a lion; we'll provide the rest. Responsibilities - Build, deploy, and optimize AI-native development systems - agentic workflows, agent harnesses

- **Id**: 3888024
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-software-development-engineer-flight-software-ai>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 20
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:59:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 36
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5296
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4612
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.888
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 143700
- **Max**: 194400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 194400

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 36

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 20
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T20:11:17Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 26
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.482
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 36
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 194400
- **Is top pay**: no

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