Senior Wireless MAC Data-Plane Engineer, Satellite

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 249,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the TeraWave Software and Networking Team to design and implement real-time MAC data-path software for a high-capacity satellite network. You will translate scheduling decisions into timed operations and optimize data movement across interfaces and hardware components.

You will collaborate with MAC control-plane, PHY, modem, FPGA, networking, platform, and systems engineers to deliver a purpose-built wireless stack for dynamic LEO

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time MAC data-plane software for point-to-point and point-to-m Multipoint satellite communication 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++

Real-time Linux

Embedded systems

Packet processing

HW integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

DPDK

AF_XDP

io_uring

VPP

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the TeraWave Software and Networking Team to design and implement real-time MAC data-path software for a high-capacity satellite network. You will translate scheduling decisions into timed operations and optimize data movement across interfaces and hardware components.

You will collaborate with MAC control-plane, PHY, modem, FPGA, networking, platform, and systems engineers to deliver a purpose-built wireless stack for dynamic LEO