Senior GN&C Flight Software Architect – Lunar Missions

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a senior software engineer to join the GN&C team working on the MK2 Crew Lander. You will drive software architecture and implementation for navigation, vision, and flight software, collaborating with avionics and hardware teams to ensure robust, verifiable, safety-critical systems for lunar missions.

You will mentor peers, lead technical discussions, and contribute to build, test, and verification activities across representative sensors and compute hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with embedded, real-time, robotics, aerospace, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability software.
• Experience developing production-quality software in C/C++ and Rust; ability to work in mixed-language environments.
• Experience integrating software with hardware, sensors, embedded compute systems, drivers, and communications interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability designing software architectures, APIs, modular interfaces, and testable systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with GN&C algorithm developers to transition algorithms into flight-appropriate software.
• Design, implement, integrate, and maintain GN&C flight software for the MK2 Crew Lander with emphasis on navigation and vision.
• Collaborate with avionics, embedded software, payload, and flight hardware teams on interfaces and data handling.
• Develop hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop test capabilities for GN&C and VBN validation.
• Establish robust software engineering practices: builds, static analysis, testing, CI, configuration control, and test planning.
• Contribute to safety-critical and human-spaceflight standards, including traceability and verification planning.
• Mentor junior engineers in software design, debugging, and disciplined development practices.

Skills

Embedded systems

Real-time software

Robotics

Aerospace software

High-reliability software

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a senior software engineer to join the GN&C team working on the MK2 Crew Lander. You will drive software architecture and implementation for navigation, vision, and flight software, collaborating with avionics and hardware teams to ensure robust, verifiable, safety-critical systems for lunar missions.

You will mentor peers, lead technical discussions, and contribute to build, test, and verification activities across representative sensors and compute hardware.