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Blue Origin · 2 weeks ago

Sr Embedded Software Engineer - Lunar Permanence

Denver, CO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$163K/yr - $229K/yr

10+ years exp

Blue Origin is working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The role involves designing, implementing, and verifying embedded software for mission-critical spaceflight systems, collaborating with RF hardware engineers and cross-functional teams.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Qualification

Embedded software designC/C++/Rust programmingDebugging skillsComputer architectureVersion control (Git)FPGA developmentLinux developmentAgile developmentWillingness to learnTeamwork

Required

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.), and experience single stepping through code, looking at Assembly, probing memory, and driving I/O

Strong background in computer architecture, understanding of memory buses, cache, DMA, CPU execution pipelines

Experience with version control systems (Git)

Ability to work well in a team and independently with minimal direction