Senior Embedded Software Engineer (IV) - Lunar Permanence

About the role

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. The role involves designing, implementing, and verifying embedded software for mission-critical spaceflight systems, working directly with avionics hardware engineers.

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.), and experience single stepping through code, looking at Assembly, probing memory, and driving I/O
• Background in computer architecture, understanding of memory buses, cache, DMA, CPU execution pipelines
• Ability to work well in a team and independently with minimal direction

Qualifications

• Enter MS in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field
• 12+ years of experience in the field(s) above
• Previous experience building space avionics and/or space software systems
• Experience with DO-178 and companion documents certification guidelines
• Experience with FPGA development (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog)
• Experience with software for HW-accelerated functions (encryption/decryption blocks, encoder/decoder blocks, image signal processor, GPU, etc.)
• Experience with tools and software for data analysis and post processing (Matlab, Python, open-source Linux tool)
• Experience with agile development methods
• Experience with kernel and driver development

Skills

• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience with DO-178 and companion documents certification guidelines
• Experience with FPGA development (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog)
• Experience with software for HW-accelerated functions (encryption/decryption blocks, encoder/decoder blocks, image signal processor, GPU, etc.)
• Experience with tools and software for data analysis and post processing (Matlab, Python, open-source Linux tool)
• Experience with agile development methods
• Experience with kernel and driver development

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
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays