Senior Satellite Flight Software Architect

Blue Origin; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Satellite Flight Software Engineer for the TeraWave program in California. You will architect, develop, and integrate core flight software for a large-scale satellite constellation, shaping frameworks and ensuring security, reliability, and maintainability across the software lifecycle.

You will collaborate with systems, avionics, GNC, and power teams to translate vehicle requirements into robust software, conduct design reviews, and advance build systems, CI/CD,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience developing embedded software for spacecraft or other mission-critical real-time systems.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
• Experience with RTOS-based embedded software development with Embedded Linux, VxWorks, or QNX.
• Experience architecting and implementing complex flight software or mission-critical embedded software systems.
• Demonstrated technical depth across software design, implementation, and cross-functional integration.
• Experience with software lifecycle, configuration management, CI/CD, and verification/validation practices for mission-critical systems.
• Familiarity with communication protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, I2C, SPI, and RS-422/485.
• Experience applying secure software development and cybersecurity best practices in embedded or mission-critical systems.
• Experience with embedded software testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and integrate core flight software for a next-generation satellite platform.
• Define scalable, reusable, and platform-independent flight software frameworks, services, and design patterns to support multiple spacecraft configurations and future growth.
• Architect, develop, and evolve key flight software components including core services, command and data handling (C&DH), telemetry, health monitoring, and fault-management infrastructure.
• Establish software architecture standards, coding guidelines, design patterns, and review practices to ensure maintainability, reliability, and mission readiness.
• Partner closely with systems, avionics, GNC, communications, power, propulsion, thermal, payload, and autonomy teams to translate vehicle and subsystem-level requirements into robust software implementations.
• Conduct software design reviews, code reviews, and technical trade studies related to performance, fault tolerance, redundancy, scalability, and portability.
• Support software integration, verification, and validation in software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and other mission-representative test environments.
• Develop and improve software engineering infrastructure including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, automated test frameworks, and debugging/diagnostic tools.
• Contribute to technical documentation including software architecture descriptions, interface control documents, verification plans, and test procedures.
• Design and implement secure OTA software update capabilities for spacecraft, including validation, authenticated delivery, rollback, version control, and safe deployment in mission-critical on-orbit environments.
• Ensure flight software architecture and implementation incorporate cybersecurity principles such as secure communications, access control, interface hardening, and resilient software design.

Skills

C/C++

Python

RTOS-based embedded

Embedded Linux

VxWorks

QNX

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

core Flight System (cFS)

F Prime

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Satellite Flight Software Engineer for the TeraWave program in California. You will architect, develop, and integrate core flight software for a large-scale satellite constellation, shaping frameworks and ensuring security, reliability, and maintainability across the software lifecycle.

You will collaborate with systems, avionics, GNC, and power teams to translate vehicle requirements into robust software, conduct design reviews, and advance build systems, CI/CD,