Senior Satellite Flight Software Architect

Blue Origin LLC; Washington; Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Senior Satellite Flight Software Engineer to lead core flight software for the TeraWave constellation, collaborating with systems, avionics, GNC, and telecom teams to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software across the full lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on architecture, design reviews, and robust verification in SIL/HIL environments, with focus on secure over-the-air updates and cyber resilience for mission-critical spacecraft.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing embedded software for spacecraft or other mission-critical real-time systems.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
• Experienced 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.
• Familiarity with 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 software lifecycle, configuration management, CI/CD, and verification/validation practices for mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and integrate core flight software for a next-generation satellite platform.
• Define scalable, reusable, platform-independent flight software frameworks and services.
• Develop and evolve components including C&DH, telemetry, health monitoring, and fault-management infrastructure.
• Establish software architecture standards, coding guidelines, and review practices.
• Collaborate with systems, avionics, GNC, communications, power, propulsion, thermal, payload, and autonomy teams.
• Conduct software design reviews, code reviews, and trade studies for performance, fault tolerance, and portability.
• Support software integration, verification, and validation in SIL, HIL, and other test environments.
• Develop and improve software engineering infrastructure including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and debugging tools.
• Contribute to documentation such as architecture descriptions, interface control documents, verification plans, and test procedures.
• Design and implement secure OTA software update capabilities with validation, rollback, and safe deployment.

Skills

C/C++

Python

RTOS

Embedded Linux

Software architecture

CI/CD

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field

Job description

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Senior Satellite Flight Software Engineer to lead core flight software for the TeraWave constellation, collaborating with systems, avionics, GNC, and telecom teams to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software across the full lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on architecture, design reviews, and robust verification in SIL/HIL environments, with focus on secure over-the-air updates and cyber resilience for mission-critical spacecraft.