Sr. Satellite Flight Software Engineer - TeraWave
Blue Origin2 months ago
Denver, CO, USA or Seattle, WA, USASenior
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, develop, and integrate core flight software for the TeraWave satellite platform.
- Define reusable, scalable, and platform-independent flight software frameworks, services, and design patterns.
- Develop flight software components for core services, command and data handling, telemetry, health monitoring, and fault management.
- Establish software architecture standards, coding guidelines, review practices, and maintainability and reliability standards.
- Partner with systems, avionics, GNC, communications, power, propulsion, thermal, payload, and autonomy teams to implement subsystem requirements.
- Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and technical trade studies involving performance, fault tolerance, redundancy, scalability, and portability.
- Support software integration, verification, and validation in software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and mission-representative test environments.
- Improve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, automated test frameworks, and debugging and diagnostic tools.
- Create software architecture descriptions, interface control documents, verification plans, and test procedures.
- Design secure OTA software update capabilities with validation, authenticated delivery, rollback, version control, and safe deployment.
- Apply secure communications, access control, interface hardening, and resilient software design principles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience developing embedded software for spacecraft or other mission-critical real-time systems.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
- Experience developing RTOS-based embedded software with Embedded Linux, VxWorks, or QNX.
- Experience architecting and implementing complex flight software or mission-critical embedded software systems.
- Demonstrated technical depth across software design, implementation, and cross-functional integration.
- Experience with software lifecycle, configuration management, CI/CD, and verification and validation practices for mission-critical systems.
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, I2C, SPI, and RS-422/485 communication protocols.
- Experience applying secure software development and cybersecurity practices in embedded or mission-critical systems.
- Experience with embedded software testing methodologies.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
- Experience with cFS, F Prime, or similar flight software frameworks is preferred.
- Experience with satellite constellations, distributed space systems, networked embedded platforms, satellite communications, spacecraft networking, or high-throughput data handling is preferred.
- Experience with SIL, HIL, integrated spacecraft test environments, fault-tolerant computing, redundancy management, radiation-hardened computing, optical inter-satellite links, secure OTA updates, software build systems, static analysis, code quality tooling, or automated verification frameworks is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) matching of 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 weekly scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Benefits and discretionary bonuses may vary by role type and job level; bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.
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.