Lead Flight Software Test Engineer for Satellites

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Paid holidays

401(k)

Stock options

Job summary

Blue Origin in Seattle, WA is seeking a Flight Software Test Lead Engineer to drive verification and validation for the TeraWave satellite constellation. You will lead a team ensuring flight software reliability, safety, and performance across the platform.

You will own the test strategy from component qualification through system-level integration, collaborating with systems engineers, flight software developers, avionics, fault management, and peer test leads to deliver flight-ready software

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in software testing, verification and validation, or software quality engineering, with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated experience testing embedded or real-time flight/mission-critical software.
• Strong proficiency in Python for test script development and test execution architecture design across environments (software-only, software & hardware, HWIL).
• Experience with requirements management and test traceability tools (DOORS, Jama, JIRA).
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing and simulation environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and execution of comprehensive test plans and procedures for flight software across satellite subsystems.
• Define and maintain the overall FSW verification and validation strategy, including component qualification, integration, regression, and HWIL testing.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop automated tests that verify component qualification and system-level requirements.
• Architect and maintain scalable test execution frameworks in Python across software-only, software & hardware, and HWIL configurations.
• Manage a team of test engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback.
• Own end-to-end test campaigns: trace requirements to test cases, track execution, and produce verification artifacts for milestone reviews.

Skills

Python test automation

Embedded flight software testing

Test campaign management

HWIL testing

DOORS/JAMA/JIRA

Git & CI/CD

Leadership / mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Aerospace

Tools

Python

DOORS

Jama

JIRA

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Blue Origin in Seattle, WA is seeking a Flight Software Test Lead Engineer to drive verification and validation for the TeraWave satellite constellation. You will lead a team ensuring flight software reliability, safety, and performance across the platform.

You will own the test strategy from component qualification through system-level integration, collaborating with systems engineers, flight software developers, avionics, fault management, and peer test leads to deliver flight-ready software