In-Space Payload Processing Engineer (HPC & Fault Tolerance)

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 182,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Education support program

Stock options

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced software engineer to own the payload processing runtime for in-space computing, enabling reliable state persistence and fault tolerance across intermittent satellite contact windows.

You will integrate accelerator frameworks, optimize performance on orbital hardware, and define APIs for job submission, while collaborating with the compute orchestration team to ensure robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• BS in CS/CE or related field.
• 6+ years in HPC, distributed systems, or accelerator software.
• Hands-on experience deploying data-intensive apps on large-scale accelerated systems.
• Strong understanding of accelerator architecture and memory bandwidth.
• Knowledge of fault tolerance and state management in intermittent connectivity.
• U.S. citizenship or eligible status required.

Responsibilities

• Own onboard payload processing runtime architecture and implementation.
• Integrate and optimize accelerator compute frameworks for orbital hardware.
• Design core system code for robust checkpointing and state persistence.
• Define API contracts for job submission and results delivery with latency SLAs.
• Develop performance benchmarks to characterize throughput, latency, and power tradeoffs.

Skills

High-performance computing

Distributed systems

Parallel programming

C/C++

Fault tolerance

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

GPU acceleration frameworks

Containerization (Docker)

Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced software engineer to own the payload processing runtime for in-space computing, enabling reliable state persistence and fault tolerance across intermittent satellite contact windows.

You will integrate accelerator frameworks, optimize performance on orbital hardware, and define APIs for job submission, while collaborating with the compute orchestration team to ensure robust, scalable solutions.