Software Engineer, Level 3 — Space Resources Program
Blue Origin1 day ago
Base Salary
$165k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, verification, and release of real-time systems and test infrastructure software for command handling, telemetry, mode and state management, timing, device control, and health monitoring.
- Implement fault management behaviors including limit checks, safe responses, retries, timeouts, watchdog patterns, and degraded modes.
- Support ground software for commanding, telemetry ingest and display, data archiving, operator tooling, connectivity testing, compatibility testing, and mission operations.
- Build and improve hardware-in-the-loop benches and automated regression suites while integrating avionics and instruments for end-to-end verification.
- Lead hardware/software interface troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for significant anomalies.
- Develop or integrate state estimation, planning, autonomy, process optimization, and anomaly detection algorithms for safety-critical and robotic systems.
- Maintain software requirements, acceptance criteria, interface control documents, verification plans, traceability, test evidence, release documentation, and technical design documentation.
- Collaborate across software, systems, GNC, avionics, mission operations, hardware, and quality teams; participate in reviews, planning, code standards, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, robotics engineering, aerospace engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of professional experience delivering embedded or mission- and safety-critical software and owning features from design through verification.
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python, Git, embedded or real-time operating systems, and Linux.
- Experience with real-time embedded software concepts such as concurrency, timing, determinism, and robust error handling.
- Ability to integrate and debug across software, firmware, and hardware boundaries and lead root-cause investigations.
- Experience developing or integrating state estimation and planning algorithms for autonomous or robotic systems.
- Experience with requirements, interfaces, verification planning, test evidence, technical reviews, and structured development environments.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, bare-metal embedded systems experience, command and telemetry frameworks, HIL benches, automated regression, static and dynamic analysis, fault management, robotic middleware, secure communications, instrumentation, low-level code, performance analysis, and DOORS or Jama.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Benefits
- Hands-on, on-site work at the North Hollywood, California facility.
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) matching up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options for 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.
- Potential eligibility for bonuses and additional benefits depending 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.