Principal Satellite Flight Software Lead - TeraWave
$230k/y-$323k/y
Blue Origina day ago
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Summary
Blue Origin is seeking a Principal Satellite Flight Software Lead to join their TeraWave business unit in the Greater Seattle Area. The role involves providing technical leadership for the Satellite Flight Software Subsystem, developing robust flight software for a large-scale satellite constellation.
About the Role
As the Principal Satellite Flight Software Lead, you will lead the architecture, design, development, and integration of core flight software for a next-generation satellite platform. You will serve as the technical lead for flight software development, establish software architecture standards, and partner with various teams to translate vehicle and subsystem-level requirements into robust software implementations. Your responsibilities will also include driving software integration, verification, and validation, as well as mentoring software engineers.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience developing embedded software for spacecraft or other mission-critical real-time systems.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
- Experience with RTOS-based embedded software development with Embedded Linux, VxWorks, or QNX.
- Experience architecting and implementing complex flight software or mission-critical embedded software systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across software design, implementation, and cross-functional integration.
- Experience with software lifecycle, configuration management, CI/CD, and verification/validation practices for mission-critical systems.
- Familiarity with communication protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, I2C, SPI, and RS-422/485.
- Experience applying secure software development and cybersecurity best practices in embedded or mission-critical systems.
- Experience with embedded software testing methodologies.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience with flight software frameworks such as core Flight System (cFS), F Prime, or similar.
- Experience developing software for satellite constellations, distributed space systems, or networked embedded platforms.
- Knowledge of satellite communications systems, spacecraft networking, and high-throughput data handling.
- Experience with software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and integrated spacecraft test environments.
- Experience with fault-tolerant computing, redundancy management, and resilient software architectures.
- Knowledge of radiation-hardened computing environments and software considerations for spaceflight.
- Experience with communication satellite systems, optical inter-satellite links, or related networking technologies.
- Experience designing secure over-the-air (OTA) software update mechanisms for embedded or mission-critical systems.
- Experience with software build systems, static analysis, code quality tooling, or automated verification frameworks for embedded systems.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.
- Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability.
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
- Education Support Program.
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Blue Origin
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Greater Seattle Area