Senior Frontend Engineer – React & AI for Space Systems

Blue Origin LLC; Town of Florida, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock options

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer III in Space Coast, FL, to advance frontend and full-stack capabilities supporting spaceflight manufacturing systems. You will lead UI development using React, work with Python and AWS, and apply AI-driven approaches to automate and optimize enterprise-scale processes.

Join a team that values collaboration, ownership, and delivering high-quality software in a safety-focused environment, contributing to our mission of expanding human

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Science, Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience with a front-end web technology such as React, Vue, Angular, OR similar
• Primary language proficiency in one of: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or Java.
• Proven development experience with React, Python, FastAPI, AWS, Spring Boot, and Node.js.
• Experience with IoT Core, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, Docker, EKS/ECS, Datadog, and Rancher/Kubernetes.
• Experience in event-driven messaging/streaming (e.g., MQTT, Kafka, Kinesis).
• Cloud expertise (AWS, Azure, GCP); GitOps, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), container orchestration, and edge deployment strategies.
• Solid understanding of version control systems and managing code/data/artifact lifecycles.
• Strong collaboration, ownership, and communication skills; bias for delivering high-quality results.
• Experience solving complex problems by leveraging AI tools and integrating AI-powered solutions into software development workflows.
• Have an ability to take technical ownership, step in to help team members as needed, collaborate with team members to identify, and fix technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop & implement new user experience for tools and applications that enable manufacturing teams to automate existing processes and standardize on performance-based benchmarks.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and deployment of successful enterprise-scale systems and services in support of operations and the businesses they support.
• Design and implement user interface for machine connectivity and data pipelines from Machines/Tools/ equipment using MTConnect, OPC UA, and MQTT; contextualize with MES/ERP/QMS/PLM data.
• Leverage AI technologies and tools (e.g., LLMs, computer vision models) to enhance software capabilities, improve automation, and drive innovation in enterprise applications.
• Produce quality user documentation for defining integrations between enterprise-level applications.
• Build web applications for manufacturing engineers for scheduling, dispatching, redlining, and issue resolution.
• Adopt DevOps practices; containerize edge and cloud services; automate deployments across environments; ensure observability and reliability.
• Identify feature gaps between enterprise systems and develop remediation plans.
• Share knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering standard methodologies.
• Have an ability to take technical ownership, step in to help team members as needed, collaborate with team members to identify, and fix technical problems.

Skills

React

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Lambda

Terraform

Datadog

ECS

MTConnect

OPC UA

MQTT

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer III in Space Coast, FL, to advance frontend and full-stack capabilities supporting spaceflight manufacturing systems. You will lead UI development using React, work with Python and AWS, and apply AI-driven approaches to automate and optimize enterprise-scale processes.

Join a team that values collaboration, ownership, and delivering high-quality software in a safety-focused environment, contributing to our mission of expanding human