Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Space Avionics & BSP

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 182,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design, implement, and verify software for mission-critical spaceflight systems. You will work closely with avionics hardware engineers on BSP development, driver work, and bench debugging in a hardware‑heavy software role.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, read hardware datasheets, and optimize performance while supporting multiple embedded software efforts across lunar vehicles.

Qualifications

• BS in a technical field (computer/electrical/aerospace).
• 10+ years embedded software experience.
• Strong C/C++/Rust with Linux scripting.
• Strong debugging with GDB/XSDB/GRMON and oscilloscopes/JTAG.
• Background in computer architecture and memory buses.
• Git version control experience.
• Teamwork and independent working capability.

Responsibilities

• Develop BSP software for new hardware, including driver development Bare‑metal or OS‑level programming for hardware initialization, control, embedded data processing, and networking/communication
• Hands‑on work with avionics spaceflight hardware, including debugging with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG debuggers
• Participating in design concepts and reviews, with special attention to partitioning between HW and SW implementation
• Performing benchmark analysis and deploying benchmarking code to characterize hardware performance
• Bring up and utilization of HW-accelerators in modern SoC devices (e.g. encoders, decoders, encryption engines, image signal processing cores, etc.)
• Scripting, Linux development, and hands‑on work with development kits and sensor modules
• Defining and implementing embedded SW for interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, TCP/IP, UDP, GMSL, SpaceWire, CameraLink, Aurora, AXI, AMBA, etc.
• Developing boot and SW‑based fault‑tolerance strategies
• Publishing internal documents and memos, participating in design reviews, reviewing and generating requirements
• Willingness to learn new skills, languages, debug/development tools

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Linux scripting

HW/SW co-design

FPGA/SoC

Assembly view

Git

Teamwork

Education

BS in computer engineering

BS in electrical engineering

MS in computer engineering

MS in aerospace engineering

DO-178 certification

Tools

GDB

XSDB

GRMON

Logic Analyzer

Oscilloscope

JTAG

Wireshark

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design, implement, and verify software for mission-critical spaceflight systems. You will work closely with avionics hardware engineers on BSP development, driver work, and bench debugging in a hardware‑heavy software role.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, read hardware datasheets, and optimize performance while supporting multiple embedded software efforts across lunar vehicles.