Senior DBF Firmware Engineer
Blue Origin5 days ago
Kraków, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop ROM code and runtime firmware for Digital Beamforming ASICs.
- Develop and support firmware for beam pointing, analog calibration, FEIC management, SerDes link management, secure boot, telemetry, and sideband control.
- 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 DBF ASICs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in firmware development.
- 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 qualifications include RF and communications experience with OFDM, digital beamforming, phased antenna arrays, and 3GPP specifications; experience leading and mentoring engineers; RTOS and hard real-time experience; Cortex-M ISA; DSP accelerators; Rust and no-std Rust; CI flows and automated HIL testing; board-level hardware design; QEMU, Palladium, or ZeBu; and custom silicon bring-up.
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.