Senior Satellite MAC Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

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 develop components for TDMA, DAMA, admission-control, scheduling, and radio-resource allocation, while integrating with PHYs, modems, and telemetry systems.

You will work with senior engineers across multiple teams to build a high-throughput, low-latency wireless stack tailored for space-based communications, ensuring robust QoS, scalability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, EE or related field.
• Four or more years of software development experience in wireless/embedded networks.
• Proficiency in C or C++ on Linux/RTOS environments.
• Experience implementing protocols, state machines, schedulers or QoS systems.
• Experience interfacing software with hardware and networking systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test MAC control-plane software for satellite links.
• Develop TDMA, DAMA, admission-control, scheduling, and resource allocation components.
• Implement protocol state machines for link establishment, maintenance, reconfiguration, and transitions.
• Develop QoS enforcement, traffic prioritization, flow control, retransmission, and link adaptation.
• Integrate MAC control-plane software with PHY implementations, modem hardware, networking data planes, telemetry systems, and hardware 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 development

Protocol implementation

Embedded systems

Hardware interfacing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

TDMA

DAMA

OFDMA

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 develop components for TDMA, DAMA, admission-control, scheduling, and radio-resource allocation, while integrating with PHYs, modems, and telemetry systems.

You will work with senior engineers across multiple teams to build a high-throughput, low-latency wireless stack tailored for space-based communications, ensuring robust QoS, scalability, and