Lead Embedded SW Test & Verification Engineer
About The Position
This role defines and delivers embedded software verification across the Core Avionics team's product portfolio in Blue Origin's Lunar Permanence business unit, supporting Blue Moon landers and related products, including those for the Human Landing System program. The engineer builds verification strategy, infrastructure, and automation that turn software requirements into repeatable tests and traceable release evidence. The role owns verification capability from processor-in-the-loop (PIL) setup and maintenance through automated deployment, test execution, and evidence delivery. It works with Design Assurance and Certification (DA&C), which provides Systems Engineering, and the VTB team, which is responsible for the integrated test environment. PIL capabilities may be hosted within the VTB, while this role owns their configuration, readiness, and use for software verification. The position remains hands-on in software development, hardware integration, and debugging. It architects reusable verification frameworks, simulates sensor and actuator interfaces, and owns verification scripts, test files, and reports. It also applies automation and AI-assisted engineering while ensuring results are reliable and reviewable, and establishes practices and capabilities to support a growing verification team. The position is based in Kent, Washington, to support hands-on integration, configuration, and maintenance of verification environments.
Responsibilities
- Own verification strategy and delivery across embedded software products; select testing, analysis, and review methods; define requirements coverage and acceptance criteria; and plan regression and formal verification campaigns.
- Define test matrices across hardware variants, software releases, and operating configurations.
- Architect, develop, and maintain reusable verification frameworks and tools, including hardware-interface adapters, test fixtures, test-data handling, and result processing.
- Apply software design, code review, and testing practices to verification infrastructure.
- Work with DA&C and software, controls, and hardware engineers to improve testability, resolve requirements ambiguities, develop varied test scenarios, and incorporate verification into requirements, design, and code reviews.
- Lead PIL setup, configuration, commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting, including capabilities integrated into the VTB; establish setup, readiness-check, and reset procedures; and coordinate hardware availability, interface changes, and shared test resources.
- Configure and integrate emulation and data acquisition systems; develop interface software and test configurations to stimulate control-card inputs, capture outputs, reproduce sensor and actuator behavior, support closed-loop scenarios and controlled fault injection, and account for electrical characteristics, signal scaling, timing, and synchronization.
- Develop software emulators and mocks for verification before target hardware is available, reuse scenarios across SIL, PIL, and HIL where appropriate, validate simulation and I/O fidelity, and establish confidence in test equipment and supporting tools.
- Automate software deployment, environment configuration, test execution, data collection, and report generation; integrate checks into code-merge, scheduled hardware regression, continuous integration, and release workflows.
- Evaluate and apply AI-assisted tools and coding agents for test-case and script development, log analysis, failure triage, and report preparation; validate generated logic and expected results, preserve human review and configuration control, ground reports in recorded data, and measure improvements.
- Own, author, review, and maintain verification scripts, test files, procedures, vectors, expected results, configurations, and simulation assets; derive expected results from requirements and interface specifications and control revisions and baselines.
- Deliver verification reports and evidence packages traceable from requirements to tests and results, preserving build identifiers, asset revisions, environment configurations, as-run records, raw data, discrepancies, coverage gaps, and unresolved anomalies.
- Work with DA&C to apply program-specific verification processes, including applicable NASA NPR 7150.2 requirements, and provide evidence for test-readiness, certification, and release reviews.
- Lead root-cause investigations, distinguish software defects from script, simulation, and equipment issues, verify corrective actions, convert resolved defects into regression tests, and improve automation reliability and diagnostics.
- Track requirements coverage, unresolved anomalies, test-environment availability, and execution time; communicate verification readiness, evidence gaps, and technical risks.
- Establish reusable verification practices across products, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, coordinate dependencies across teams, identify capability and staffing needs, and help build the expanding verification team.
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, potential benefits and bonuses based on individual contributions or company results
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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