Ground Software Development Engineer II - Lunar Permanence
About The Position
This role is part of Blue Origin’s Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Moon landers and related products, and supports the development of sustainable infrastructure for transporting crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. The Ground Software Engineer will build, test, and integrate software for the Lunar Permanence Mission Operations Centers used to fly lunar space vehicles, working closely with space vehicle and ground subsystem teams. The role develops, tests, and deploys software that enables Earth-based operators to perform mission-critical functions. These include flight and ground system integration and testing, mission activity planning, telemetry data processing and display, spacecraft system and health monitoring, fault detection, and operations training. The position contributes to safe human spaceflight through reliable, safety-critical ground software and supports ongoing software operations during training, verification, spacecraft integration, and flight.
Requirements
- B.S. or higher degree in a software- or engineering-related field.
- At least 2 years of software development experience.
- Proven software development experience in Python and/or Rust.
- Willingness to work and integrate with frontend developers and React-based frameworks.
- Experience across the full software engineering lifecycle, including system design, software implementation and verification, system integration, and release.
- Skills in software build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, and deployment.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable software architectures.
- Familiarity with Linux and basic Unix system administration activities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- Passion for spaceflight and space exploration.
Nice To Haves
- Professional experience developing software for critical applications such as aviation, spaceflight, nuclear power, or business-critical web services.
- Experience developing software for aerospace operations.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, services-as-code, and cloud technologies.
- Understanding of space-based communications protocols such as CCSDS.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity practices for software-system safety.
- Compliance experience with NPR 7150.2x.
- Experience with fault-tolerant software design, human-error assessment and prevention, and fault tolerance.
- Experience with spacecraft subsystems and associated software.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, verify, and deploy mission-operations and safety-critical software systems supporting spaceflight operations.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and customers to define software requirements, architectures, and designs.
- Develop rapid prototypes to demonstrate concepts and quantify technical risks.
- Coordinate with mission-control infrastructure and mission-system engineers to plan, develop, and lead system verification and qualification.
- Produce and contribute to software architecture and design documentation, verification plans, user manuals, and training materials.
- Follow software development processes that meet Blue Origin and customer standards for software safety and reliability.
- Support frequent software update cycles for pre-flight testing, mission-validation exercises, and operations-training events.
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve mission-control software during operator training, ground-data-system verification, validation and certification, spacecraft integration, and flight.
- Integrate software components; build and run unit-level and system-level tests; validate using Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulators; and release certified code.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match of up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week
- Paid time off of up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on individual contributions and company results; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and may change or be cancelled.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
