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Blue Origin · 1 day ago

Ground Software Engineer II - Lunar Permanence

Greater Seattle Area

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$124K/yr - $173K/yr

3+ years exp

Blue Origin is dedicated to developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Ground Software Engineer will be responsible for building, testing, and integrating software for the Lunar Permanence Mission Control Centers, enabling mission-critical functions for lunar space vehicles.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, verify and deploy mission operations, safety-critical software systems, ensuring the success of the overall Ground Data System (hardware/software)

Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including engineers representing space vehicle systems, mission-control infrastructure, operations fields, and customers to define software requirements, architectures, and designs

Develop rapid prototypes to prove out concepts and quantify technical risks

Produce and contribute to documentation for software architecture, design, verification plans, user manuals and training material

Follow software development processes that meet Blue Origin and customer-required standards to ensure software safety and reliability

Support frequent update cycles in support of pre-flight testing, mission validation exercises and events related to operations training

Integrate software components, build, and run unit-level and system-level tests, validate using Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulators, and release certified code

Challenge why things are done a certain way and figure out ways to make things better

Qualification

PythonReact/TypescriptDockerPostgreSQLSeleniumViteLinuxC++RustTest automationSoft skills

Required

B.S. or higher degree in Software or Engineering related field

3+ years of software development experience

Proven software development using some of: Python, React/Typescript, Docker, PostgreSQL, Selenium, Vite

Familiarity with Linux environment and basic Unix system administration activities

Passion for spaceflight and space exploration

Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum