At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. The Senior Flight Software Engineer will play a crucial role in defining, developing, and testing the flight software for upcoming Blue Ring uncrewed spacecraft, addressing challenges in space infrastructure and increasing mobility on-orbit.
Requirements
- 10+ years of embedded software development and testing experience including low-level software structure, drivers, inter process communication, and scheduling.
- Proven experience across the software lifecycle, including software design and analysis, requirement development, software implementation and verification, system integration, and qualification.
- Experience working on multi-component, sophisticated avionics for spacecraft, aircraft, or similar systems.
- Expertise developing real-time embedded systems, particularly in C/C++
- Experience working with build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, and deployment of software.
- Effective debugging skills at the software/hardware boundary.
- Experience in autonomy, sequencers, state machines, and fault management.
Responsibilities
- defining, developing, and testing the flight software for upcoming Blue Ring uncrewed spacecraft
- create real-time software using modern embedded C/C++ techniques
- ensure the continued quality of our products through test and pipeline development
- help shape and implement new capabilities in support of product line upgrades and mission-unique needs
- expand your understanding of satellite systems by supporting other areas such as avionics hardware and mission operations
- participating in the buildup and test of the actual flight vehicles
- operate with a higher level of autonomy within small teams on compartmented programs, directly impacting the customer solutions and mission-unique software
Other
- B.S. degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, aerospace, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated effective communication skills with program and executive leadership.
- Active Top Secret (TS) / Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance with Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with polygraph preferred
- Applicants for employment at Blue Origin 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.
- Demonstrated ability to serve as the technical leader for lean, multi-discipline teams.
