Sr Embedded Software Verification & Test Engineer — Lunar Permanence
Blue Origin5 days ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software verification strategies, test plans, procedures, and requirements traceability matrices for spaceflight RF components.
- Derive electrical test requirements and review system, software, interface, and safety requirements for clarity, completeness, and testability.
- Develop automated test frameworks, scripts, test firmware, equipment-control software, and data-analysis tools.
- Perform software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, bench-level, and integrated RF testing.
- Verify functional, performance, timing, interface, startup, fault-management, and recovery requirements.
- Maintain configuration-controlled test procedures, software, equipment configurations, results, and objective pass/fail criteria.
- Debug embedded systems using laboratory equipment and software-debug tools.
- Lead anomaly investigations across software, FPGA logic, digital hardware, and RF hardware and drive corrective actions through closure.
- Participate in requirements, design, test-readiness, qualification, and acceptance reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in embedded software verification, integration, testing, or development.
- Experience converting requirements into traceable test cases, procedures, and objective pass/fail criteria.
- Strong embedded C or C++ development and debugging skills.
- Proficiency with Python or similar languages for test automation, equipment control, and data analysis.
- Experience testing embedded software on microcontroller-, FPGA-, or SoC-based hardware.
- Hands-on hardware-in-the-loop testing and experience with laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, analyzers, power supplies, multimeters, and signal generators.
- Experience debugging across hardware and software with tools such as GDB, JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and Wireshark.
- Ability to perform root-cause analysis and clearly document test results and anomalies.
- Experience with Git or another modern version-control system and continuous integration pipelines.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, flight software or spacecraft avionics experience, RF communications experience, safety-critical embedded systems experience, DO-178C or comparable aerospace standards, RF test equipment experience, automated regression frameworks, fault injection, robustness testing, performance characterization, off-nominal testing, embedded interfaces, FPGA development or debugging, environmental or EMI/EMC test campaigns, design for testability, and technical leadership or mentoring.
Benefits
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 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.
- Paid time off is up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, with up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Some roles and job levels may be eligible for discretionary benefits and bonuses.
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.