Flight Software Engineer III
Blue Origin1 day ago
Huntsville, AL, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$151k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and test embedded avionics software for spacecraft subsystems in C and C++.
- Implement and verify software requirements while maintaining requirements traceability.
- Develop multithreaded, real-time software and associated verification test environments.
- Lead debugging of complex software and hardware/software integration issues and support anomaly investigations and root-cause analysis.
- Define software interfaces with avionics, systems engineering, and other spacecraft subsystems.
- Conduct design and code reviews and contribute to development practices in an Agile and DevOps environment.
- Communicate program status and technical risks to program and technical leadership.
- Support spacecraft integration, test campaigns, and mission-readiness activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent experience in computer, aerospace, or electrical engineering or a related field.
- At least 5 years of embedded software development and testing experience, including multithreaded programming and real-time systems, particularly in C/C++.
- Experience implementing and verifying requirements.
- Effective communication skills with program and technical leadership.
- Familiarity with Agile and DevOps processes and culture.
- Preferred experience across multiple phases of spacecraft development and operations, including design, integration, verification, on-orbit checkout, mission operations, and anomaly resolution.
- Preferred experience with complex, multicomponent avionics for spacecraft, aircraft, or similar systems.
- Preferred experience with multiple concurrent product baselines, autonomy, sequencers, state machines, fault management, and safety- or mission-critical software standards such as NPR 7150.2 or DO-178.
- Understanding of spacecraft operations, subsystem functions, interfaces, and common interactions is preferred.
- Preferred experience with embedded Linux or an equivalent real-time operating system.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee.
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.
- Relocation is provided, and travel is expected up to 15% of the time.
- A technical assessment is included in the interview process.
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.