Senior Firmware Engineer: Space RF & DBF

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Stock Options

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop ROM code and run-time firmware for Digital Beamforming ASICs. The role collaborates with hardware and systems engineers to define interfaces and validate both pre- and post-silicon work for DBF ASICs.

Requirements include a 10+ year background in firmware development and C programming, with experience in low-level embedded code, debugging, and hardware interaction. Relocation provided and strong RTOS expertise are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in firmware development.
• Experience developing software in C.
• Experience writing software that directly controls hardware, such as firmware, kernel device drivers, or low-level embedded code.
• Experience debugging and validating embedded firmware and hardware/software interactions.

Responsibilities

• Develop ROM code and runtime firmware for Digital Beamforming (DBF) ASICs.
• Develop and support firmware for beam pointing, analog calibration, FEIC management, SerDes link management, secure boot, telemetry, and sideband control of DBF ASICs.
• Work closely with hardware and communications systems engineers to define and implement firmware and hardware interfaces.
• Support pre-silicon firmware development, integration, and validation.
• Support post-silicon bring-up, debugging, and validation of custom DBF ASICs.

Skills

Firmware development

C programming

Hardware interfacing

Debugging embedded systems

Mentoring engineers

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Tools

RTOS: FreeRTOS

RTOS: Zephyr

Cortex-M ISA

Pre-silicon simulation: QEMU/ZeBu/Palladium

DSP accelerators

Rust (no-std)

CI/HIL testing

Schematic/data sheet analysis

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop ROM code and run-time firmware for Digital Beamforming ASICs. The role collaborates with hardware and systems engineers to define interfaces and validate both pre- and post-silicon work for DBF ASICs.

Requirements include a 10+ year background in firmware development and C programming, with experience in low-level embedded code, debugging, and hardware interaction. Relocation provided and strong RTOS expertise are a plus.