Payload Processing Software Engineer, Project Sunrise
Blue Origin3 days ago
Base Salary
$182k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and implementation of the onboard payload processing runtime for high-performance workloads.
- Integrate, configure, and optimize accelerator compute frameworks and libraries for orbital hardware.
- Design core system code for workload checkpointing and state persistence across planned and unplanned connectivity interruptions.
- Define job submission and results-delivery API contracts, schemas, latency SLAs, and error-handling semantics with the compute orchestration team.
- Develop and maintain benchmark suites to measure throughput, latency, and power tradeoffs on reference hardware.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of experience in high-performance computing, distributed systems engineering, or accelerator-focused software development.
- Hands-on experience deploying and optimizing demanding, data-intensive applications on large-scale accelerated computing systems.
- Strong understanding of accelerator architecture, including GPUs, utilization metrics, memory bandwidth management, and parallel programming models.
- Understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, especially fault tolerance, consensus, and state management with intermittent connectivity.
- U.S. citizenship or nationality, U.S. permanent residency, or lawful admission as a refugee or asylee is required.
- A master’s degree or Ph.D., 10+ years of relevant experience, low-level accelerator-kernel optimization, resilient distributed-systems design, production containerization and orchestration experience, and familiarity with AI and machine-learning applications are preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) with up to a 5% company match, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to 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 roles and job levels may be eligible for discretionary benefits and bonuses.
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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.