Education: Bachelor's degree
Experience: 5+ years
We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission is required!
- Design, implement, test, verify and deploy mission operations, safety-critical software systems, ensuring the success of the overall Ground System (hardware/software) supporting space flight operations.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including engineers representing space vehicle systems, mission-control infrastructure, operations fields, and other customers to define software requirements, architectures, and designs.
- Develop rapid prototypes to prove out concepts and quantify technical risks.
- Coordinate with mission control infrastructure and mission system engineers to plan, develop, and lead system verification and qualification, to ensure software products that meet system requirements and safety-critical standards.
- Produce and contribute to documentation for software architecture, design, verification plans, user manuals and training material.
- Follow software development processes that meet Blue Origin and customer-required standards to ensure software safety and reliability.
- Support frequent update cycles for pre-flight testing, mission validation exercises and events related to operations training.
- Support mission control software operations responsibilities (maintenance, problem correction, improvements) 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.
- B.S. or higher degree in Software or Engineering related field.
- A willingness to work and integrate with frontend developers and React-based frameworks.
- Experience in full lifecycle software engineering. Including: system design, software implementation and verification, system integration, and release.
- Skills in software build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, and deployment.
- Experience in designing and implementing scalable software architectures.
- Familiarity with Linux environment and basic Unix system administration activities.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- 5+ years of proven ability in developing software supporting systems in critical applications (e.g. aviation, spaceflight, nuclear power, business-critical web services, etc.).
- Experience crafting and developing software for aerospace operations.
- Familiar with infrastructure-as-code, services-as-code, and cloud technologies.
- Understanding of space-based communications protocols, such as CCSDS.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity practices to ensure the safety of software systems.
- Experience with fault-tolerant software design, human error assessment, and human error prevention and fault tolerance.
- Experience with spacecraft subsystems and associated software.
Base Pay Range for: CO applicants is $181,626.00 - $254,275.35 WA applicants is $197,529.00 - $276,539.55
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