Senior MAC Control-Plane Engineer for Satellite TDMA

Blue Origin; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Education Support

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to design, implement, and test MAC control-plane software for the TeraWave network. You will collaborate with PHY, modem, networking, platform, and systems teams to deliver a high-throughput, low-latency wireless stack optimized for space-based communications.

Responsibilities include implementing TDMA-based access, admission control, and QoS scheduling; integrating with hardware and simulation tools; and delivering robust control-plane

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Four or more years of software-development experience in wireless networking, communication systems, embedded systems, or high-performance networking.
• Proficiency in C or C++ with concurrent or timing-sensitive software in Linux, real-time Linux, or RTOS environments.
• Experience implementing communication protocols, protocol state machines, resource schedulers, flow-control mechanisms, or QoS systems.
• Experience developing and debugging software that interfaces with hardware, embedded platforms, networking systems, or communication devices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test MAC control-plane software for point-to-point and point-to-mmultipoint satellite links.
• Develop components of TDMA, DAMA, admission-control, scheduling, and radio-resource-allocation systems.
• Implement protocol state machines for link establishment, maintenance, and transitions between beams, satellites, and gateways.
• Develop MAC control logic for QoS enforcement, traffic prioritization, flow control, retransmission, and beam adaptation.
• Integrate MAC control-plane software with PHY implementations, modem hardware, networking data planes, telemetry systems, and hardware-accelerated MAC functions.
• Build simulation, test, and performance-analysis tools to validate protocol behavior under mobility, fading, congestion, timing variation, and failure scenarios.
• Diagnose software, protocol, timing, and system-integration issues using logs, telemetry, packet captures, simulations, and hardware test environments.
• Deliver MAC control-plane features through design, implementation, code review, hardware integration, system qualification, and deployment.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Linux RTOS

Wireless networking

Protocol development

Multithreaded/asynchronous

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

ns-3

MATLAB

Python

DPDK

VPP

eBPF

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to design, implement, and test MAC control-plane software for the TeraWave network. You will collaborate with PHY, modem, networking, platform, and systems teams to deliver a high-throughput, low-latency wireless stack optimized for space-based communications.

Responsibilities include implementing TDMA-based access, admission control, and QoS scheduling; integrating with hardware and simulation tools; and delivering robust control-plane