Senior Wireless MAC Data-Plane Engineer for Satellite Links

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 249,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Senior Wireless Software Engineer for the MAC data-plane in the TeraWave team. You will design real-time MAC data-plane software to translate scheduling decisions into timed transmissions across satellite links, working across MAC, PHY, modem, FPGA, and SoC components.

Required seven+ years in wireless/high-performance packet processing, C/C++ proficiency, and experience with embedded hardware integration.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of software-development experience in wireless, embedded, communication systems, or high-performance packet processing.
• Advanced proficiency in C or C++ with concurrent, timing-sensitive software in Linux, real-time Linux, or RTOS environments.
• Experience implementing high-throughput or low-latency data paths, communication protocols, device interfaces, or packet-processing systems.
• Experience integrating and debugging software with embedded hardware, network devices, modems, FPGAs, or communication-system components.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time MAC data-plane software for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint satellite links.
• Translate MAC scheduling and resource-allocation decisions into timed transmit and receive operations executed by modem and PHY hardware.
• Develop packet-processing pipelines and manage queues, buffers, flow control, prioritization, and congestion-handling across the data path.
• Develop data-path support for retransmission, sequence tracking, duplicate detection, loss recovery, and in-order or selective packet delivery.
• Integrate MAC data-plane software with PHY implementations, modem firmware, FPGAs, DMA engines, network interfaces, and custom SoCs.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Real-time systems

Linux RTOS

Wireless data-path

Packet processing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

DPDK

AF_XDP

io_uring

FPGAs

Job description

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Senior Wireless Software Engineer for the MAC data-plane in the TeraWave team. You will design real-time MAC data-plane software to translate scheduling decisions into timed transmissions across satellite links, working across MAC, PHY, modem, FPGA, and SoC components.

Required seven+ years in wireless/high-performance packet processing, C/C++ proficiency, and experience with embedded hardware integration.