Senior Battery Software Engineer, Spaceflight Embedded

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to join the battery products development group. You will develop BSPs and OS-level software for flight-ready battery management systems, interfacing with hardware and time-critical subsystems used across multiple programs.

The role requires strong C/C++/Rust, Linux scripting, and debugging expertise, plus familiarity with DO-178C, ISO 26262, and FPGA/SoC acceleration concepts. A collaborative, high-assurance environment awaits.

Qualifications

• BS or higher in a technical field such as computer/electrical/aerospace engineering.
• 6+ years in the relevant domains.
• 2+ years building battery management systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop BSP software and drivers for new hardware.
• Bare-metal or OS-level programming for initialization and control.
• Debug avionics hardware with probes and analyzers; work with DO-178C and ISO 26262 standards.
• Design HW-SW partitioning and benchmarking for performance.
• Implement embedded software interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, TCP/IP, UDP, GMSL, SpaceWire, AXI/AMBA).

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Linux scripting

GDB/Debugging

Computer architecture

Git

Teamwork

Education

BS in computer engineering / computer science / electrical engineering / aerospace engineering

MS in a related field (preferred)

Tools

GDB

XSDB

GRMON

Logic Analyzer

JTAG

Wireshark

DO-178C

ISO 26262

FPGA (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog)

Matlab/Python

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to join the battery products development group. You will develop BSPs and OS-level software for flight-ready battery management systems, interfacing with hardware and time-critical subsystems used across multiple programs.

The role requires strong C/C++/Rust, Linux scripting, and debugging expertise, plus familiarity with DO-178C, ISO 26262, and FPGA/SoC acceleration concepts. A collaborative, high-assurance environment awaits.