Senior Ground Software Engineer - Blue Ring

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!

- Relocation provided - Interviews will include a technical assessment

- Design, implement, test, verify and deploy mission operations software systems, ensuring the success of the overall Ground System (hardware/software) supporting Blue Origin space mission operations. - Work with multiple teams, including engineers from fields like flight vehicle systems, mission control infrastructure, operations subject areas, and customers to define software requirements, architectures, and designs. - Develop rapid prototypes to prove out concepts and quantify technical risks. - Coordinate with systems infrastructure and system engineers to plan, develop, and verify, to ensure software products meet requirements and safety-critical standards. - Produce user documentation for software architecture, design, verification plans, user manual 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 in support of pre-flight testing, mission validation exercises and operations training events. - Support mission control software operations responsibilities (maintenance, defect correction, improvements) during operator training; ground data system verification, validation, and certification; spacecraft integration; and flight. - Integrate software components, develop, and run unit-level and system-level tests, validate using Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulators, and release certified code. - Support in developing materials for software design, verification plans, user manuals, and training

- B.S. or higher degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, or related field or equivalent experience - 8+ years of software development experience - Experience in software engineering over the course of the full lifecycle of software development, including system design and analysis, requirement capture and development, software implementation and verification, system integration, qualification, and release. - Experience in software build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, and deployment - Demonstrated software development skills in multiple software languages, with ability to implement in the language most appropriate to the problem-domain - Familiarity with Linux environment and comfortable with basic Unix system administration activities. - Ability to earn trust and maintain positive and professional relationships.

- Experience designing and developing ground software for space flight operations. - Expertise developing complex application in Python - Experience with REST, Kafka, GRPC, web development and/or database development and interfaces. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Technologies - Familiarity developing software systems for one or more of the following applications and technologies:

- Telemetry data processing, fault monitoring, flight dynamics - Mission activity planning and scheduling

- Experience with spacecraft subsystems and associated subsystem software. - Active Top Secret Clearance

Base Pay Range for: CO applicants is $181,626.00 - $254,275.35 WA applicants is $197,529.00 - $276,539.55

- Required for all positions: Blue's Standard Background Check

- Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation

- Required for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of hazardous materials by ground in any vehicle on a public road while in commerce, may be subject to additional Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations including: Driver Qualification Files, Medical Certification (obtained before onboarding), Road Test, Hours of Service, Drug and Alcohol Testing (CDL drivers only), vehicle inspection requirements, CDL requirements (if applicable) and hazardous materials transportation/shipping training.

- Required for certain Job Profiles: Ability to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical

- Benefits include: 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.

- Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)

- 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.

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