Lead Embedded SW Test & Verification Engineer
Blue Origin3 days ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own embedded software verification strategy, requirements coverage, acceptance criteria, regression planning, and formal verification campaigns across software products.
- Architect, develop, and maintain reusable verification frameworks, hardware-interface adapters, test fixtures, test-data handling, and result-processing tools.
- Lead processor-in-the-loop setup, configuration, commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, readiness checks, and coordination with the VTB team.
- Integrate emulation and data acquisition systems; develop interface software and test configurations for sensor and actuator simulation, closed-loop scenarios, and controlled fault injection.
- Develop software emulators and mocks and reuse verification scenarios across software-in-the-loop, processor-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
- Automate software deployment, environment configuration, test execution, data collection, report generation, and hardware regression workflows.
- Author, review, and maintain verification scripts, test files, procedures, vectors, expected results, configurations, and simulation assets.
- Deliver traceable verification reports and evidence packages for test-readiness, certification, release reviews, and NASA NPR 7150.2-related processes.
- Lead root-cause investigations, verify corrective actions, convert resolved defects into regression tests, and improve test isolation and diagnostics.
- Track coverage, anomalies, environment availability, execution time, readiness, evidence gaps, and technical risks.
- Lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and help define staffing and capability needs for the verification team.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience developing embedded software verification frameworks, automated tests, simulations, and hardware-integration solutions.
- Ability to work with processor-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop environments, including emulators, mocks, sensors, actuators, control cards, and data acquisition systems.
- Experience with software development, hardware integration, debugging, test automation, requirements traceability, configuration control, and verification evidence.
- Ability to account for electrical characteristics, signal scaling, timing, synchronization, and interface fidelity in test environments.
- Experience investigating failures across software, test scripts, simulations, and test equipment and converting findings into reliable regression coverage.
- Ability to apply software design, code review, testing, continuous integration, and release practices to verification infrastructure.
- Ability to evaluate AI-assisted engineering tools while validating generated test logic and preserving human review and configuration control.
- Experience communicating verification readiness, technical risks, coverage gaps, anomalies, and evidence status to engineering stakeholders.
- U.S. citizenship or national status, U.S. permanent residency, or lawful admission as a refugee or person granted asylum is required due to export control regulations.
Benefits
- 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 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.
- Potential role- and level-dependent benefits and bonuses, subject to company discretion and change or cancellation.
- Position is based in Kent, Washington for hands-on integration, configuration, and maintenance of verification environments.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
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.