Senior Firmware Engineer for Secure Enclaves & OTA Systems

Blue Origin; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 323,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a senior firmware engineer to develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves in custom ASICs within the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with silicon, software, security, and system teams to create bootloaders and firmware for secure boot, device attestation, and root-of-trust, while enabling OTA updates and secure lifecycle management.

The role requires 8+ years of embedded experience, strong C/C++ programming, and a background in bootloaders, ROM code, and hardware

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience developing embedded software or firmware for complex SoCs, ASICs, microcontrollers, or similar embedded systems.
• Strong programming experience in C/C++ and low-level embedded software development.
• Experience developing bootloaders, ROM code, board-support software, device drivers, or low-level firmware.

Responsibilities

• Develop ROM code, bootloaders, and runtime firmware for secure enclaves within custom ASICs.
• Design and implement firmware supporting secure boot, device attestation, and root-of-trust functionality.
• Develop firmware infrastructure for OTA updates, recovery, and secure firmware lifecycle management.
• Support manufacturing provisioning, including device identity, keys, credentials, and secure configuration.
• Develop and support secure debug, telemetry, tamper monitoring, and device recovery mechanisms.
• Work closely with ASIC, security, software, and system teams to define hardware/software interfaces and security requirements.
• Support pre-silicon firmware development and validation using simulation, emulation, FPGA, or other available development platforms.
• Support silicon bring-up, debugging, validation, and production deployment of secure-enclave firmware.
• Develop high-quality, maintainable embedded software with appropriate unit testing, code review, and documentation.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded software

Bootloaders

Secure boot

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree (EE/CE/CS)

Tools

JTAG

Emulation/FPGA

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a senior firmware engineer to develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves in custom ASICs within the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with silicon, software, security, and system teams to create bootloaders and firmware for secure boot, device attestation, and root-of-trust, while enabling OTA updates and secure lifecycle management.

The role requires 8+ years of embedded experience, strong C/C++ programming, and a background in bootloaders, ROM code, and hardware