Blue Origin

Senior Software Engineer (Autonomous Factory Systems)

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3 days ago
Cupertino, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USASenior

Base Salary

$198k - $277k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop autonomous agents coordinating design, supply chain, production, and quality workflows.
  • Build integrations between factory systems, design platforms, and material management systems.
  • Develop decision-making logic and workflows for autonomous factory operations.
  • Create monitoring and control systems for production agentic workflows.
  • Collaborate with automation engineers to embed autonomous capabilities into factory systems.
  • Implement real-time data pipelines for factory and supply chain data.
  • Ensure autonomous systems operate safely, securely, and within compliance requirements.
  • Optimize system performance and responsiveness for real-time factory operations.
  • Document system architectures, workflows, and decision logic.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5–7 years of software development experience.
  • Strong experience building distributed systems and workflows.
  • Proficiency with Python or similar languages.
  • Experience integrating multiple systems and APIs.
  • Preferred: experience with agentic systems, multi-agent systems, or autonomous workflows.
  • Preferred: knowledge of manufacturing processes or supply chain systems.
  • Preferred: experience with event-driven architectures and message systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • Preferred: familiarity with manufacturing automation hardware and PLCs.
  • Preferred: machine vision or IoT device integration experience.
  • Preferred: ML/AI fundamentals for decision-making systems.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
  • Stock options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
  • Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
  • Potential role- and job-level-dependent benefits and bonuses, subject to company discretion and change.

Tech Stack

Blue Origin

About Blue Origin

10,000+ employees

Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.

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