Embedded Software Engineer III

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse software creators, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and verifying embedded software for mission and safety-critical spaceflight systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams and share in the team’s impact on all aspects of re-usable, safety-critical, real-time embedded software development, verification and delivery. Our team delivers the software packages used to test flight avionics and mechanical hardware during acceptance and qualification testing. To be successful on this team, you should have experience in:

• Implementing designs in C/C++ and Python, integrate software components, conduct software verification and release real-time embedded solutions.
• Producing technical documentation for software architecture, design, verification, and configuration management.
• Defining and developing verifiable software requirements, architecture and designs.
• Defining and developing tests to assure code meets mission and safety critical standards and functions.
• Conducting trade-studies and develop prototypes to prove out architecture and design concepts, and quantify technical risks.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience writing software and deploying it to a production environment.
• Strong software development skills, particularly in C/C++ and Python.
• Working knowledge of real-time operating systems and Linux.
• Strong debugging skills at the software/hardware boundary, and familiarity with software verification approaches.
• Working knowledge of communications protocols such as UDP/TCP, I2C, UART, etc.
• Ability to solve problems by writing efficient working code, even when given incomplete or ambiguous requirements.
• Hard working team player with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Desired:

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or related technical field with 10+ years of software development experience.
• Experience developing and testing real-time embedded control systems (including APIs, interfaces and device drivers).
• Experience developing, verifying, certifying and releasing mission and safety-critical software systems that comply with DO-178 and companion documents, ED-12C, ARP4754, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or similar guidelines.
• Direct hands on experience with GNU toolchain, Serial Communications, IP networking, SystemVerilog for FPGAs.
• Experience with the following programming languages: MATLAB, Simulink, C#.
• Experience with agile development methods.
• Experience with tools such as DOORs Next Generation (DNG), Gitlab, SVN, Docker, Jenkins.
• Experience developing robust, secure, mission and safety critical, software systems.
• Experience developing, verifying, certifying and releasing mission and safety-critical software systems that comply with DO-178, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or similar guidelines.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle: concept definition, architecture, requirements capture and development, software implementation and verification, system integration, qualification and release.
• Exposure to software development on embedded system with I/O transducers: displacement, rate, and acceleration sensors; pressure and temperature sensors; servo and solenoid actuators; etc.
• Working knowledge of hardware components such as an MMU, MAC, DMA, Flash, etc.
• Experience with device drivers, bootloader, or kernel development experience with debuggers, profiling, and tracing.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here .

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here and here .

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

Blue Origin is committed to taking affirmative steps to promote the employment and advancement of minorities, women, protected veterans, and persons with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and federal executive orders. Applicants who wish to view the available portion of Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com .