Firmware Engineer, Security
Blue Origin2 months ago
Base Salary
$192k - $269k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop ROM code, bootloaders, and runtime firmware for secure enclaves of custom ASICs.
- Develop and support firmware for secure boot, attestation, OTA updates, manufacturing provisioning, secure debug, telemetry, recovery, tamper monitoring, and security.
- Define and implement firmware and hardware interfaces with hardware and communications systems engineers.
- Support pre-silicon firmware development, integration, and validation.
- Support post-silicon bring-up, debugging, and validation of custom ASICs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 5 years of firmware development experience.
- Experience developing software in C.
- Experience writing software that directly controls hardware, including firmware, kernel device drivers, or low-level embedded code.
- Experience debugging and validating embedded firmware and hardware/software interactions.
- Preferred: Rust, especially no-std Rust; Cortex-M ISA; ARM TrustZone and TF-M; FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or TockOS; CI flows and automated hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Preferred: familiarity with secure boot, root of trust, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, PKI chains, penetration testing, or similar technologies.
- Preferred: board-level hardware design skills, including reading schematics and data sheets.
- Preferred: firmware testing with QEMU, Palladium, or ZeBu simulation and emulation platforms.
- Preferred: secure manufacturing provisioning and safety-critical software development.
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, refugee, or asylee due to export control regulations.
- A technical assessment is included in the interview process.
Benefits
- Relocation provided.
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) with company 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 scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Some employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on role type and job level.
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.