Spaceflight Embedded Software Engineer I

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 111,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Stock options

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in the United States is seeking an early-career software engineer to design, build, and maintain software applications across our aerospace programs. You will work with cross-functional teams on safety-critical, real-time embedded systems.

You'll code in C/C++ and Python, participate in verification, and help develop tools for build, test, and deployment while aligning with our culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion.

Qualifications

• BS Degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, aerospace, or related field.
• Will have earned their degree within the last year and able to start by Fall 2026.
• Software development skills, particularly in C/C++, Python, or C#/Java.
• Problem solving and debugging skills, particularly in C/C++.
• Experience with formalized verification activities (Test cases, procedures, reports).
• Collaborative interactions with software development teams while maintaining objectivity and independence.
• Relevant internship/co‑op and/or hands‑on experience that demonstrate development of both technical skills as well as leadership qualities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software applications and their components.
• Based upon your placement, your work may involve many aspects of applied software development, requirement analysis, code development, testing, collaboration, documentation and system integration.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to build verification plans, frameworks, tools, and tests for safety critical, real-time, embedded software that support control and diagnostics of human capable spacecraft, for both orbital and sub-orbital programs.
• Review and update software requirements and designs for verifiability.
• Write code to verify software for various embedded environments in C, C++, and Python.
• Design adversarial, requirements based, automated tests.
• Develop tools and infrastructure to support efficient build, debugging, and deployment.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Software development

Debugging

Embedded software

Team collaboration

Education

BS in computer engineering

BS in computer science

Tools

Qt framework

DevOps

Git

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in the United States is seeking an early-career software engineer to design, build, and maintain software applications across our aerospace programs. You will work with cross-functional teams on safety-critical, real-time embedded systems.

You'll code in C/C++ and Python, participate in verification, and help develop tools for build, test, and deployment while aligning with our culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion.