Space Wireless Systems Engineer - Relocation Available

Blue Origin; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Stock Options

Paid time off

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an engineer to develop and analyze wireless‑communication algorithms for the TeraWave platform. You will work across PHY/MAC, RF, ASIC, FPGA, and software teams to create models, verify implementations, and optimize performance in space‑grade silicon.

The role emphasizes end‑to‑end system design, algorithm development, and collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines, with on‑site work in the Bay Area or other locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in wireless communication systems, modem development, digital signal processing, or related engineering.
• Strong understanding of digital communications and signal‑processing fundamentals.
• Experience with communication technologies and algorithms such as OFDM, QPSK/QAM, synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, forward error correction, and link adaptation.
• Experience developing communication‑system or signal‑processing models using MATLAB, Python, C/C++, SystemC, or similar tools.
• Understanding of wireless channel effects and RF impairments and their impact on communication‑system performance.
• Ability to work collaboratively across communication systems, ASIC, RFIC, FPGA, software, and test teams.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Develop and model wireless communication algorithms and signal‑processing functions for custom silicon, including modem PHY/MAC, radio DSP, beamforming, and packet‑processing functions.
• Develop end‑to‑end communication system and link‑level models to evaluate system performance, architecture tradeoffs, and implementation requirements.
• Develop and analyze channel and RF impairment models, including noise, interference, Doppler, frequency and timing offsets, phase noise, nonlinearities, and other relevant impairments.
• Design and evaluate algorithms for synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, modulation/demodulation, coding, link adaptation, and other modem functions.
• Analyze algorithm performance and implementation tradeoffs including performance, complexity, latency, memory, bandwidth, power, and fixed‑point requirements.
• Translate communication‑system and algorithm requirements into specifications suitable for FPGA and ASIC implementation.
• Work closely with ASIC engineers to support hardware implementation, fixed‑point conversion, architecture tradeoffs, and pre‑silicon verification of communication algorithms.
• Collaborate with RFIC, beamforming, software, and system engineering teams to define interfaces and ensure end‑to‑end system performance.
• Develop MATLAB, Python, C/C++, SystemC, or equivalent reference models used for algorithm development, system simulation, and implementation verification.
• Support FPGA prototyping, pre‑silicon verification, silicon bring‑up, and post‑silicon validation to verify system and algorithm performance against requirements.
• Analyze simulation and laboratory results, identify performance gaps, and work across engineering teams to resolve system‑level issues.
• Document algorithms, models, requirements, assumptions, interfaces, and verification results.

Skills

Wireless communications

Modem development

Digital signal processing

OFDM

QPSK/QAM

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

SystemC

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, or related technical discipline

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, or related field

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

SystemC

FPGA/ASIC tooling

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an engineer to develop and analyze wireless‑communication algorithms for the TeraWave platform. You will work across PHY/MAC, RF, ASIC, FPGA, and software teams to create models, verify implementations, and optimize performance in space‑grade silicon.

The role emphasizes end‑to‑end system design, algorithm development, and collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines, with on‑site work in the Bay Area or other locations as needed.