Senior Software Engineer - AI Services

About the role

This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we’re developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin’s mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, low-latency AI services powering metadata generation and feature extraction
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering peers to understand and translate business requirements into flexible design solutions
• Ensure that AI/ML systems comply with security standards and best practices, addressing data privacy and protection concerns
• Develop and deploy Agentic AI solutions, including autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered workflows, that transform business processes across Finance, Supply Chain, and other enterprise domains
• Own features end-to-end: from project estimation and architecture review through coding, deployment, and post-launch measurement
• Build resilient systems with strong observability, bringing to bear automated testing, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
• Lead and participate in on-call rotations; drive root-cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational excellence

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with focus on building RESTful APIs and AI/ML applications, in cloud environments, and containerized workloads (we use AWS)
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python (Preferred) or Java
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, and problem-solving

Qualifications

• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, fine-tuning, and/or AI agent orchestration frameworks
• Experience developing front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks

Skills

• Deep understanding of software development, machine learning
• Broad range of technical capabilities
• Hands-on approach to solving problems
• Commitment to quality and safety

Benefits

• Base Pay Range For WA applicants is $197,529.00 - $276,539.55
• Other Site Ranges May Differ
• Culture Statement
• Benefits include: 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%, and an Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion.
• Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation.

Pay

Base Pay Range For WA applicants is $197,529.00 - $276,539.55

Schedule

Not specified