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Blue Origin, LLC Senior Avionics Software Engineer - New Shepard in Denver, Colorado
At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!
This role is part of the New Shepard program. New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Karman line - the internationally recognized boundary of space. Through operational reusability, New Shepard supports our mission of lowering the cost of access to space.
As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for designing, building and continuously improving New Shepard's avionics software stack. Your role will focus on design, development, integration and testing efforts of this safety-critical system. This is a hands-on role and will require active participation throughout the development life-cycle. The ideal candidate will quickly achieve a high level of proficiency in the system / software architecture as well as Blue Origin's engineering process. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention toward safe and repeatable spaceflight.
Responsibilities Participate in software design, development, verification, validation, and integration efforts for our Propulsion Module, Crew Capsule, and Launch Operations systems Participate in software & systems requirements management Participate in trade studies supporting upgrades to compute systems Continuously improve our product, internal tools, and processes Facilitate collaboration between multidisciplinary team of engineers to develop tools and workflows supporting spaceflight systems Collaborating with an assigned Technical Project Manager, define and commit to schedules, and associated budgets Challenge why things are done a certain way and figure out ways to make things better Provide engineering support for our Mission Operations team Mentor & train incoming software engineers
We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Minimum Qualifications Minimum of a B.S. degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related field 8+ Proven years of software development experience Advanced software development skills, particularly in C/C++ & Python Experience with and understanding of real-time embedded software, computer networking systems and protocols Experience with build, and test, and deployment automation Experience with software and systems requirements management Ability to work independently and as part of a team on rapid development programs High-judgement individual with the ability to... For full info follow application link.
To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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