Senior Wireless Software Engineer - Real-Time Satellite MAC

Blue Origin; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 249,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical,Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off (PTO) & Holidays

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement real-time MAC data-plane software for the TeraWave network, translating MAC decisions into timed operations across modem hardware and PHY components.

You will optimize data-path processing, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure high-throughput, low-latency performance on complex satellite links in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field required.
• 7+ years of software development in wireless, embedded, or high-performance systems.
• Proficient in C/C++ with timing-sensitive Linux/RTOS environments.
• Experience with high-throughput or low-latency data paths and device interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time MAC data-plane software for satellite links.
• Translate MAC scheduling into timed transmit/receive operations with hardware.
• Develop packet-processing pipelines, queues, and flow control.
• Support retransmission, sequence tracking, and in-order delivery.
• Integrate with PHY, modem firmware, FPGAs, DMA, and SoCs.
• Optimize memory movement with zero-copy and lock-free structures.
• Build telemetry and diagnose timing, performance, and integration issues.
• Deliver capabilities from architecture to deployment.

Skills

C/C++

Linux RTOS

Embedded hardware

High-performance networks

Packet processing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

DPDK

AF_XDP

io_uring

FPGA

DMA

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement real-time MAC data-plane software for the TeraWave network, translating MAC decisions into timed operations across modem hardware and PHY components.

You will optimize data-path processing, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure high-throughput, low-latency performance on complex satellite links in a dynamic environment.