Embedded Software Engineer - NS Hardware in the Loop

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  

This role is part of the New Shepard program. New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space. Through operational reusability, New Shepard supports our mission of lowering the cost of access to space.

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.  

We are looking for a skilled, motivated engineer, with a focus on real-time embedded solutions, to help us build and test software that enables human spaceflight as part of the NS HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) team.  You will be a key technical contributor in software development, verification, and systems integration. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of design, implementation, and deployment. This is an individual contributor position open to be filled in our Kent, WA location.

We value people who are ready to learn new things, beginning on the first day.  We’re looking for a teammate who will be committed, careful, and passionate about ensuring safe and reliable human spaceflight. We are a growing team and seek technical, initiative taking motivated engineers who desire to help us grow. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to <5% of the time
• Interviews will include a technical assessment

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop test infrastructure software a to enable robust, real-time, safety-critical software systems
• Support development of large-scale automated test systems used to verify autonomous flight and ground software
• Provide contribution towards software development and integration testing efforts to integrate software components, create and run unit tests, and diagnose/troubleshoot software/hardware issues in an integrated system environment.
• Contribute to production of technical documentation for software architecture, design, verification plans
• Provide input to project managers to help plan, track progress and adjust scope to meet goals in agile operating rhythm.
• Adapt software DevOps technologies to solve software automation problems
• Promote deployment of common & streamlined process/procedures across software organization.
• Actively work with product owner and scrum master to support sprint planning and backlog grooming sessions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related field
• 4+ years of software development and integration experience
• Software development skills, particularly in C/C++, and Python
• Experience with integrating embedded SW in an electronics laboratory.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles
• Project management fundamentals, including planning, tracking progress, and adjusting scope to meet goals
• The ability to quickly absorb information in an unfamiliar domain and translate it into software
• Experience working in an engineering software team with a diverse user base
• An internal drive to deliver high-quality results with the ability to seek out requirements and propose solutions
• Solid communication skills; open to the opinions of others and willing to own and correct mistakes
• Working knowledge of configuration management and source code management systems
• Have an ability to take technical ownership, step in to help team members as needed, collaborate with team members to identify and fix technical problems.
• 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 gr