Hybrid Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Lunar Permanence

at BLUE ORIGIN

• Job title: Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Lunar Permanence
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $181,626 - $254,275 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Linux, Rust, TCP/IP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Embedded Software Engineer developing and verifying embedded software for space avionics systems at Blue Origin. Collaborating with cross-functional teams on mission-critical spaceflight systems.

Responsibilities

• Developing Board Support Package (BSP) software for new hardware, including driver development
• Bare-metal or OS-level programming for hardware initialization, control, embedded data processing, and networking/communication
• Hands-on work with avionics spaceflight hardware, including debugging with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG debuggers
• Participating in design concepts and reviews, with special attention to partitioning between HW and SW implementation
• Performing benchmark analysis and deploying benchmarking code to characterize hardware performance
• Bring up and utilization of HW-accelerators in modern SoC devices (e.g. encoders, decoders, encryption engines, image signal processing cores, etc.)
• Scripting, Linux development, and hands-on work with development kits and sensor modules
• Defining and implementing embedded SW for interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, TCP/IP, UDP, GMSL, SpaceWire, CameraLink, Aurora, AXI, AMBA, etc.
• Developing boot and SW-based fault-tolerance strategies
• Publishing internal documents and memos, participating in design reviews, reviewing and generating requirements
• Willingness to learn new skills, languages, debug/development tools

Requirements

• BS in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in the field(s) above
• Strong embedded software design and development skills in C/C++/Rust with Linux (or similar) scripting experience
• Strong debugging skills, using a mix of cross HW/SW techniques and tools (GDB, XSDB, GRMON, Logic Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer, Wireshark, etc.)
• Strong background in computer architecture, understanding of memory buses, cache, DMA, CPU execution pipelines
• Experience with version control systems (Git)

Benefits

• Medical
• dental
• vision
• basic and supplemental life insurance
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours
• up to 14 company-paid holidays