Senior Embedded Systems Engineer — Spaceflight FPGA/SoC

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 144,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design and verify mission-critical software for avionics hardware. You will develop BSPs, perform bare-metal and OS-level programming, and debug with advanced tools while collaborating with HW engineers.

Responsibilities include hardware bring-up, benchmarking, and integrating HW accelerators, with a strong emphasis on reading datasheets and optimizing performance in a spaceflight context.

Qualifications

• BS in a technical field related to engineering or computer science.
• 7+ years of embedded software experience in C/C++/Rust with Linux scripting.
• Strong debugging using GDB/XSDB/GRMON, logic analyzers, and memory probes.

Responsibilities

• Develop BSP software and device drivers for new hardware.
• Bare-metal or OS-level programming for init, control, and data processing.
• Hardware debugging with logic analyzers, scopes, and JTAG debuggers.
• Collaborate on HW/SW partitioning and performance benchmarking.
• Bring up HW accelerators in SoCs and develop related software.
• Scripting, Linux development, and working with development kits.

Skills

Embedded software design

C/C++

Rust

Linux scripting

Education

BS in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related field

Tools

GDB

XSDB

GRMON

Logic Analyzer

Protocol Analyzer

Wireshark

Git

JTAG

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design and verify mission-critical software for avionics hardware. You will develop BSPs, perform bare-metal and OS-level programming, and debug with advanced tools while collaborating with HW engineers.

Responsibilities include hardware bring-up, benchmarking, and integrating HW accelerators, with a strong emphasis on reading datasheets and optimizing performance in a spaceflight context.