Early Career Embedded Flight Software Engineer I – New Glenn (2025/2026 Grad)

Blue Origin • Denver, WA

1d • $91,158 - $139,223

About The Position

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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! - We are a 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 supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable. As part of a small, hard-working, and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for designing, building, verifying and continuously improving New Glenn’s avionics flight software, software development tools, and software and hardware verification tools. Our software supports our mission by allowing us to launch and land rockets faster, cheaper, and better. Together, our forward-thinking team creates the software technology that enables us to deliver safe and well-tested software to our vehicles. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related field.
• Experience writing low level software: bare metal systems, kernel development, BSPs, drivers, and the like.
• Strong C, C++, and Python skills.
• Working knowledge of Software Verification and Automation.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related field.
• Experience developing, debugging, and verifying real-time embedded safety-critical software.
• Understanding of communications protocols like TCP/IP, UART, SPI and others, packet formats and serialization.
• Experience developing software that directly interacts with hardware or programmable logic.

Responsibilities

• designing, building, verifying and continuously improving New Glenn’s avionics flight software
• designing, building, verifying and continuously improving software development tools
• designing, building, verifying and continuously improving software and hardware verification tools

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%, and an Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion.
• Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees