Sr Flight Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Autonomous System Management and Command & Control (R38021)

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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  

This position is part of the Space Systems Development (SSD) business unit. SSD develops next-generation concepts and systems to advance our future of living and working in space sustainably.

As part of a diverse and hardworking team of engineers and technicians within the Space System Development (SSD) business unit, you will contribute to the design of the flight software for future space systems operating in orbital and deep space environment. Within a small, passionate, and accomplished team, you will contribute to developing fault tolerant flight software responsible for the overall command and control of a significant autonomous space system providing state-of-the-art space station services with Blue Origin Orbital Reef and NASA Commercial Destination Free Flyer (CDFF) program. This includes defining architectures and requirements, cross-functional activities with subsystem stakeholders, and development and verification. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration, and your dedicated commitment and detailed attention will further the cause of safe spaceflight as we build a road to space. You will create and maintain artifacts for flight software designs and present infrastructure and application flight software designs at gated reviews. 

We are looking for engineers 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. If you’re excited by solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, and completing challenging activities, please apply! 

Responsibilities: 

• Design and Develop infrastructure and autonomous vehicle system management software 

• Support design and development of flight software functional architecture for orbital space system 

• Evaluate, decompose, and create requirements for safety-critical, real-time operating systems 

• Support trade studies on infrastructure, system and application embedded flight software architectures and implementations 

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to define software concepts of operations, functions and requirements 

• Design and develop vehicle system management and fault management flight software for commanded and autonomous operations of space system 

• Author unit tests, documentation, and participate in design and code reviews 

• Integrate space system flight software components, create and run unit tests, validate on cross-platform software testbed Hardware-in-the-Loop and simulator environment 

• Define and implement flight software engineering best practices 

• Present flight software designs at design and milestone reviews 

• Set up software development testbed lab environment 

• Deliver flight software for milestone prototype demonstration 

• Support the integrated product manager to identify and track program and technical risk, develop and maintain schedule, resource allocation, and budget 

Qualifications: 

• B.S. degree in computer science, computer engineering, applied mathematics, intelligent robotics, related field, with 10 year demonstrated industry experience. 

• Breadth and depth of understanding of real-time embedded software development concepts 

• Demonstrated experience in defining and verifying low-level software structure, inter process communication, and scheduling. 

• Demonstrated software development skills in real-time embedded systems, particularly in C/C++ 

• Experience in build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, cross-platform development and deployment of software. 

• Strong debugging skills at the software/hardware boundary. 

• Experience with real time operating systems, such as VxWorks, Integrity, Embedded Linux or equivalent 

• Demonstrated hands-on and theoretical mastery of software and computational science principles, concepts, algorithms, and engineering beyond tool use 

• Demonstrated experience with development of real-time embedded software systems performing long duration autonomous operations in changing environments 

• Advanced competency in both real-time embedded software control systems and application software engineering across the entire lifecycle