We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

This role is part of Engineering and Program Management (EPM) where we provide technical standards, tools, processes, training and subject matter expertise for product engineering and manufacturing. EPM allows all Blue Origin business units to benefit from commonly used capabilities, hardware, and software and assists business units in identifying, selecting, and training engineers from both inside and outside the organization.

The Systems and Avionics Center of Excellence is a “super-powered” organization, bringing top talent to answer some of our most challenging engineering questions. Its mission is to champion engineering best practices and drive common solutions across all avionics product teams at Blue.

As a software engineer within the Systems and Avionics Center of Excellence, you will be part of a collaborative team of engineers and experts that specialize in the verification of mission-critical avionics software. You have a strong desire to learn new systems, challenge the status-quo and improve software products. Your attention to detail, passion for finding software errors, and relentless commitment to a culture of safety will contribute to successful spacecraft missions.

Responsibilities:

• Become a subject matter expert of mission-critical software test and verification, working closely with the product group team members
• Review and refactor software requirements and designs for verifiability; uncover requirement gaps
• Author requirements-based test cases, test procedures/scripts

• Assist in building the software test environment and infrastructure, leveraging readily available Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environments and test tools where appropriate

• Participate in Agile stand-ups as needed by the product groups

Required Qualifications:

• Passion for getting people into space and back again safely
• Minimum of a B.S. degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or related discipline
• 5 years of embedded software testing or development experience
• Excellent Python, C, or C coding skills
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• 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.

Desired:

• Experience developing or verifying mission-critical space software
• Experience with tools such as Pytest, Gcov, DOORs Next Generation (DNG), Jama, Gitlab, Jira, Docker
• Experience developing or verifying I/O, Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), Board Support Package (BSP), or middleware software

• Experience with Model Based Development (MBD) auto-code tools such as MATLAB Simulink

• Experience developing and deploying software test stations