Senior Firmware Security Engineer, Secure Enclaves

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves in its custom ASICs as part of the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with silicon, software, security, and system teams to enable secure boot, provisioning, operation, updates, monitoring, and lifecycle management across the hardware stack.

Qualifications include 8+ years in embedded software for SoCs/ASICs, strong C/C++, and hands-on experience with secure firmware concepts and

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 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

Bootloaders

Secure enclaves

Hardware interfaces

JTAG debugging

ARM/RISC-V toolchains

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

FPGA

Emulation

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced firmware engineer to develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves in its custom ASICs as part of the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with silicon, software, security, and system teams to enable secure boot, provisioning, operation, updates, monitoring, and lifecycle management across the hardware stack.

Qualifications include 8+ years in embedded software for SoCs/ASICs, strong C/C++, and hands-on experience with secure firmware concepts and