Senior Firmware Engineer, Secure Enclaves

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin in California is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves within custom ASICs. You will collaborate with silicon, security, software, and system teams to build the foundational firmware for secure boot, provisioning, operation, updates, monitoring, and recovery across the device lifecycle.

The role focuses on ROM code, bootloaders, device identity, and secure firmware updates, with hands-on work on pre-silicon development and silicon

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in 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 firmware

Debugging Embedded Systems

Secure boot / root of trust

Pre-silicon development

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/CS

Tools

JTAG

FPGA

Job description

Blue Origin in California is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves within custom ASICs. You will collaborate with silicon, security, software, and system teams to build the foundational firmware for secure boot, provisioning, operation, updates, monitoring, and recovery across the device lifecycle.

The role focuses on ROM code, bootloaders, device identity, and secure firmware updates, with hands-on work on pre-silicon development and silicon