Senior Flight Software Engineer
Blue Origin1 day ago
Huntsville, AL, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$182k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead for major embedded avionics software subsystems, including technical direction, task prioritization, and mentorship.
- Architect, design, develop, and deliver high-reliability, multithreaded, real-time C and C++ software for spacecraft avionics.
- Derive software requirements and develop verification plans with traceability from system requirements through verification.
- Support the full spacecraft lifecycle, including proposals, system definition, design, production, integration, verification, on-orbit checkout, mission operations, and anomaly resolution.
- Lead design reviews, code reviews, integration activities, and testing across multicomponent avionics systems.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and lead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex software anomalies.
- Communicate technical status and risks to program and executive leadership.
- Contribute to proposals and technical documentation.
Requirements
- B.S. degree or equivalent experience in computer, aerospace, or electrical engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of embedded software development and testing experience, including multithreaded programming and real-time systems, particularly in C and C++.
- Experience across all phases of spacecraft development and operations or a similar capacity.
- Experience with complex, multicomponent avionics for spacecraft, aircraft, or similar systems.
- Demonstrated communication skills with program and executive leadership.
- Experience deriving, implementing, and verifying requirements.
- Familiarity with Agile and DevOps processes and culture.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain professional relationships, and support an inclusive culture.
- U.S. citizenship or nationality, U.S. permanent residency, or lawful admission as a refugee or asylee is required.
- Preferred qualifications include product line engineering across concurrent product baselines; autonomy, sequencers, state machines, or fault management; NPR 7150.2, DO-178, or similar safety- or mission-critical standards; spacecraft operations knowledge; and embedded Linux or equivalent real-time operating systems experience.
Benefits
- Relocation is provided.
- Travel is expected up to 15% of the time.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) with company matching up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Paid time off is up to four weeks per year based on scheduled hours, with up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Some employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and other benefits based on role type, job level, and company policies.
About Blue Origin
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.