Sr Embedded Software Verification & Test Engineer — Lunar Permanance
Blue Origin1 day ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain 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.
- Establish pass/fail criteria and maintain configuration-controlled test procedures, software, equipment configurations, and results.
- Debug embedded systems with laboratory equipment and software-debug tools.
- Lead anomaly investigations across software, FPGA logic, digital hardware, and RF hardware and drive corrective actions to 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.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience in embedded software verification, integration, test, 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, logic or protocol analyzers, power supplies, multimeters, and signal generators.
- Experience debugging across hardware and software using GDB, JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and Wireshark.
- Ability to perform root-cause analysis and document test results and anomalies.
- Experience with Git or another modern version-control system and CI/CD pipelines.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, flight software or spacecraft avionics experience, RF communications or safety-critical embedded systems experience, DO-178C or comparable aerospace standards, RF test equipment experience, automated regression frameworks, fault injection, robustness testing, embedded interfaces, FPGA development or debugging, qualification or environmental 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) match of up to 5%, 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 scheduled hours, with up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and other benefits based on role type, job level, and company factors.
- 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.