Senior Firmware Engineer - Space-Grade DBF ASICs

Blue Origin LLC

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 230,000 - 323,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance
401(k) match
Stock options
Paid time off
Parental leave

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop low-level code for DBF ASICs in the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with hardware and communications teams to implement ROM and runtime firmware for beamforming and telemetry, and drive firmware interfaces from silicon to system level.

The role requires 10+ years in firmware development, strong C and embedded programming skills, and familiarity with RTOS like FreeRTOS/Zephyr.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or related field.
  • 10+ years of firmware development experience.
  • Experience with embedded firmware and hardware interfaces.
  • Experience debugging embedded firmware and hardware/software interactions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop ROM code and runtime firmware for Digital Beamforming (DBF) ASICs.
  • Develop firmware for beam pointing, calibration, SerDes, secure boot, telemetry and sideband control of DBF ASICs.
  • Support pre-silicon firmware development, integration, and validation.
  • Support post-silicon bring-up, debugging, and validation of custom DBF ASICs.

Skills

C
Embedded firmware
Kernel drivers
RTOS
Low-level hardware control
Debugging embedded systems
Cortex-M ISA
DSP accelerators
Rust (no-std)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

QEMU
Palladium
ZeBu
FreeRTOS
Zephyr

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop low-level code for DBF ASICs in the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with hardware and communications teams to implement ROM and runtime firmware for beamforming and telemetry, and drive firmware interfaces from silicon to system level.

The role requires 10+ years in firmware development, strong C and embedded programming skills, and familiarity with RTOS like FreeRTOS/Zephyr.

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