Principal Silicon Systems Engineer

Blue Origin; Kraków; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a highly experienced Principal Silicon Systems Engineer to lead DSP/embedded software efforts and hardware accelerators for custom communications silicon. You will drive HW/SW partitioning, performance modeling, and pre-silicon development, guiding RTL, DV, and silicon bring-up with senior teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and ensure robust integration across software, processors, accelerators, and RTL blocks in a complex SoC environment.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field.
• 12+ years hands-on experience in ASIC/SoC, embedded systems, DSP, or related semiconductor development.
• Deep experience across hardware/software boundaries in complex SoCs.
• Strong understanding of SoC processors, accelerators, memory, interconnects, and peripherals.
• Experience mapping DSP algorithms to programmable processors and hardware accelerators.
• Experience with RTL, verification, and ASIC implementation teams.
• Experience with pre-silicon development environments (simulation, FPGA prototyping, emulation).
• Ability to debug跨 processor, software, RTL, accelerator, and system boundaries.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring ability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation plan across DSP, software/firmware, processors, and hardware accelerators for custom communications silicon.
• Determine partitioning of functions between software and hardware based on performance, latency, power, memory, and complexity.
• Translate requirements into workstreams, interfaces, and implementation plans for DSP and embedded software teams.
• Guide architecture and integration of DSP workloads across embedded CPUs, custom processing elements, and accelerators.
• Develop system and performance models to analyze load, throughput, latency, and data movement.
• Ensure modem and DSP algorithms map efficiently to real-time silicon implementations.
• Provide guidance for low-level software/firmware interacting with silicon, processors, and hardware interfaces.
• Define interfaces between software, processors, accelerators, and RTL blocks; ensure robust integration.
• Drive pre-silicon development via simulation, FPGA prototypes, emulation, and other platforms.
• Collaborate with RTL/DV teams on system-level verification and debugging across domains.
• Lead silicon bring-up and integration, with performance correlation across software and hardware.
• Mentor engineers, conduct technical reviews, and raise the team's technical bar.

Skills

DSP & Embedded Systems Leadership

HW/SW Partitioning

Implementation Planning

Processor & Accelerator Architecture

Performance Modeling

Modem/DSP Implementation

Embedded Software & Firmware

HW/SW Interfaces

Pre-silicon Development

Verification & Debug

Silicon Integration & Bring-Up

Technical Mentorship

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

RTL

SystemVerilog

FPGA Prototyping

Emulation

Job description

Application close date:
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!

Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based connectivity with TeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise, data center, and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Silicon Systems Engineer to join our growing Silicon Development team. In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership at the intersection of communications DSP, embedded software, custom processors, hardware accelerators, and ASIC implementation.

This is a hands-on Principal-level technical role requiring broad experience across the HW/SW boundary. You will lead technical planning and implementation across DSP and embedded software teams, drive HW/SW partitioning and performance tradeoffs, define implementation interfaces and dependencies, and guide development from modeling and pre-silicon verification through silicon integration and bring-up.

Key Responsibilities:

• DSP & Embedded Systems Technical Leadership: Lead the technical implementation plan across DSP, low-level software/firmware, programmable processors, and hardware accelerators for custom communications silicon.
• HW/SW Partitioning: Work with Systems, Algorithm, and ASIC teams to determine the appropriate partitioning of communications and DSP functions between software-programmable processing and dedicated hardware acceleration based on performance, latency, power, memory, and implementation complexity.
• Implementation Planning: Translate system and algorithm requirements into clear technical workstreams, interfaces, dependencies, and implementation plans for DSP and embedded software teams.
• Processor & Accelerator Architecture: Guide the implementation and integration of DSP workloads across embedded CPUs, custom processing elements, vector/DSP execution resources, and dedicated hardware accelerators.
• Performance Modeling: Develop and use system and performance models to analyze processing load, throughput, latency, memory bandwidth, data movement, and HW/SW architecture tradeoffs.
• Modem/DSP Implementation: Work with communications and algorithm teams to ensure modem and DSP algorithms can be efficiently mapped into real-time silicon implementations.
• Embedded Software & Firmware: Provide technical guidance for low-level software and firmware interacting directly with custom silicon, processors, accelerators, memory, peripherals, and hardware control interfaces.
• HW/SW Interfaces: Define and review interfaces between embedded software, processors, accelerators, and RTL blocks, ensuring clear ownership and robust integration.
• Pre-silicon Development: Drive early DSP and software integration using simulation, FPGA prototypes, emulation environments, and other pre-silicon platforms.
• Verification & Debug: Work closely with RTL and DV teams to develop system-level verification approaches and debug complex problems spanning software, processor architecture, accelerators, interconnects, and RTL.
• Silicon Integration & Bring-Up: Provide technical leadership during silicon bring-up and integration, including performance correlation and debugging across software and hardware boundaries.
• Technical Mentorship: Mentor engineers across DSP and embedded software, conduct technical reviews, guide difficult implementation decisions, and raise the technical bar across the team.

Basic Qualifications:

• Education: BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
• Experience: 12+ years of hands-on experience in ASIC/SoC, embedded systems, communications silicon, DSP, or related semiconductor development.
• HW/SW Co-Design: Deep experience working across hardware and software boundaries in complex SoCs.
• SoC Architecture: Strong understanding of processors, hardware accelerators, memory systems, interconnects, peripherals, and embedded software.
• DSP Systems: Strong understanding of DSP implementation and the mapping of signal-processing algorithms onto programmable processors and hardware accelerators.
• Performance Modeling: Experience modeling and analyzing processor performance, throughput, latency, memory bandwidth, and system bottlenecks.
• Embedded Software: Strong understanding of low-level software/firmware interacting directly with custom silicon.
• ASIC Development: Experience working with RTL, verification, and ASIC implementation teams.
• Pre-silicon Development: Experience with simulation, FPGA prototyping, emulation, or other pre-silicon development environments.
• System Integration: Demonstrated ability to debug complex issues crossing processor, software, RTL, accelerator, and system boundaries.
• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead technical work across multiple engineering disciplines and mentor senior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing cellular, wireless, satellite, or other communications SoCs.
• Experience with modem/L1 execution environments and real-time communications processing.
• Experience designing or working with custom DSP/CPU architectures.
• Experience with MIMO, beamforming, or other communications hardware accelerators.
• Experience with RTL/SystemVerilog and silicon verification.
• Experience with SoC interconnect and data-movement architectures.
• Experience with FPGA-based silicon prototyping and verification.
• Experience with processor and accelerator performance modeling.
• Experience with C/C++ and low-level embedded software.
• Experience taking complex SoCs through pre-silicon verification, integration, and silicon bring-up.
• Experience technically leading and mentoring small, highly specialized engineering teams.

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Candidates may be subject to verification and BGS screening as per applicable law.