Spaceborne Wireless Systems Engineer (ASIC/DSP)

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 20%

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a skilled wireless-communications engineer to design and analyze algorithms for the TeraWave platform. You will model, simulate, and verify PHY/MAC, DSP, RF, and ASIC workflows across FPGA and software interfaces.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate requirements into hardware-friendly implementations, using MATLAB/Python/C/C++ and SystemC, with a focus on performance, power, and reliability in space environments.

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 OFDM, QPSK/QAM, synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, FEC, 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 system performance.
• Ability to work across communication systems, ASIC, RFIC, FPGA, software, and test teams.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Develop and model wireless communication algorithms and signal-processing functions for custom silicon, including PHY/MAC, radio DSP, beamforming, and packet-processing functions.
• Develop end-to-end communication system and link-level models to evaluate performance, architecture tradeoffs, and implementation requirements.
• Model RF impairment effects including noise, interference, Doppler, offsets, phase noise, and non-linearities.
• Design and evaluate algorithms for synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, modulation/demodulation, coding, and link adaptation.
• Analyze performance vs. complexity, latency, memory, bandwidth, and fixed-point requirements.
• Translate requirements into specifications for FPGA and ASIC implementations.
• Collaborate with ASIC engineers for fixed-point conversion and pre-silicon verification.
• Work with RFIC, beamforming, software, and system teams to define interfaces and ensure end-to-end performance.
• Develop reference models in MATLAB, Python, C/C++, SystemC for algorithm development and verification.
• Support FPGA prototyping, pre-silicon verification, silicon bring-up, and post-silicon validation.
• Document algorithms, models, requirements, interfaces, and verification results.

Skills

Wireless communications

DSP fundamentals

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

SystemC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

SystemC

FPGA

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a skilled wireless-communications engineer to design and analyze algorithms for the TeraWave platform. You will model, simulate, and verify PHY/MAC, DSP, RF, and ASIC workflows across FPGA and software interfaces.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate requirements into hardware-friendly implementations, using MATLAB/Python/C/C++ and SystemC, with a focus on performance, power, and reliability in space environments.