Senior Wireless Software Engineer: Satellite Networking

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the TeraWave Software and Networking Team to design and implement real-time MAC data-path software for satellite links.

You will translate scheduling decisions into timed operations, optimize memory movement with zero-copy techniques, and collaborate with PHY, FPGA, modem and SoC teams to deliver a high-performance wireless stack for LEO/MEO networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field.
• 7+ years of software development in wireless/embedded/high-performance packet processing.
• Advanced proficiency in C or C++ with timing-sensitive software in Linux/RTOS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time MAC data-plane software for point-to-point and point-to-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.
• Optimize memory movement and packet processing using zero-copy buffers, scatter-gather I/O, batching, lock-free queues, and hardware offload.
• Build telemetry and diagnose timing, synchronization, performance, and integration issues using packet captures, traces, and hardware test environments.
• Deliver MAC data-plane capabilities from architecture and prototyping through hardware integration, performance qualification, and operational deployment.

Skills

C/C++

Real-time systems

Linux RTOS

Wireless data paths

Embedded systems

Education

Bachelor's in CS/EE/CE

Job description

Blue Origin in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the TeraWave Software and Networking Team to design and implement real-time MAC data-path software for satellite links.

You will translate scheduling decisions into timed operations, optimize memory movement with zero-copy techniques, and collaborate with PHY, FPGA, modem and SoC teams to deliver a high-performance wireless stack for LEO/MEO networks.