Senior Autonomy Software Engineer (Space Systems)

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

Parental leave

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking dynamic software systems engineers to join the New Glenn team in Washington. You will own an autonomy software component end-to-end, working across controls, avionics, and testing to ensure safe and reliable flight operations.

The role emphasizes end-to-end responsibility, data-driven testing, and rapid iteration. Strong communication and collaborative skills are essential as you drive software release readiness and coordinate with multiple engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field.
• 5–8 years of experience with technical design, analysis, or integrated testing of real-time or safety-critical software (e.g., aerospace, automotive, robotics).
• Proficiency with engineering physics, software engineering, and closed-loop control principles.
• Familiarity with systems engineering principles such as requirements decomposition, verification, validation, and configuration management for Model-Based Design.
• Experience programming in Python.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of earning trust and driving teams to timely decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams of controls engineers, subsystem designers, and operators to define autonomy software behaviors.
• Architect, document, and decompose design decisions into software requirements, verification activities, and validation activities.
• Support code reviews and validate software behavior through simulation data analysis, Hardware-In-the-Loop testing, and hardware testing.
• Develop and run data analysis pipelines.
• Drive autonomy software release readiness decisions by assessing autonomy changes for safety, performance, and stakeholder needs.
• Coordinate with Avionics teams to integrate autonomy software into flight and ground systems.
• Define procedures and command sequences to control the rocket for ground testing and operations.
• Triage, investigate, and resolve software issues using test data on an aggressive schedule.
• Rapidly develop tooling, scripts, and functions to address emergent issues.
• Provide real-time support for hot fire tests and missions in the support room.
• Push for process improvements with a sense of ownership and urgency.

Skills

Python

Engineering Physics

Software Engineering

Control Theory

Systems Engineering

Technical Documentation

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking dynamic software systems engineers to join the New Glenn team in Washington. You will own an autonomy software component end-to-end, working across controls, avionics, and testing to ensure safe and reliable flight operations.

The role emphasizes end-to-end responsibility, data-driven testing, and rapid iteration. Strong communication and collaborative skills are essential as you drive software release readiness and coordinate with multiple engineering teams.