Senior Firmware Engineer - Secure Enclave for Space Systems

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 323,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Technical assessment

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Embedded Firmware Engineer to develop ROM code, bootloaders, and secure-enclave firmware for custom ASICs in the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with silicon, security, and software teams to bootstrap, provision, operate, update, monitor, and recover firmware across its lifecycle.

The role emphasizes secure boot, device attestation, OTA updates, and secure firmware lifecycle management, with opportunities to support pre-silicon validation 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.
• Strong understanding of embedded processor architectures, memory maps, interrupts, peripherals, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Experience debugging embedded systems using tools such as JTAG, trace, logic analyzers, or equivalent debugging environments.
• Experience with embedded security concepts such as secure boot, root of trust, cryptographic key management, device identity, or secure firmware updates.
• Ability to work closely with ASIC and hardware teams during pre-silicon development and silicon bring-up.

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

Device drivers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

JTAG

Logic analyzers

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Embedded Firmware Engineer to develop ROM code, bootloaders, and secure-enclave firmware for custom ASICs in the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with silicon, security, and software teams to bootstrap, provision, operate, update, monitor, and recover firmware across its lifecycle.

The role emphasizes secure boot, device attestation, OTA updates, and secure firmware lifecycle management, with opportunities to support pre-silicon validation and hardware