Ground Senior Software Engineer - Lunar Permanence

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, verify, and deploy mission operations safety-critical software systems, ensuring the success of the overall Ground System supporting space flight operations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including engineers representing space vehicle systems, mission-control infrastructure, operations fields, and 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 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 in support of pre-flight testing, mission validation exercises, and events related to operations training.
• 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.

Requirements

• B.S. or higher degree in Software or Engineering related field.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Proven software development using Python, React/Typescript, Docker, PostgreSQL, Selenium, Vite.
• Experience in full lifecycle software engineering, including system design, requirements gathering, software implementation and verification, system integration, and release.
• Confirmed skills in software build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, and deployment.
• Familiarity with Linux environment and basic Unix system administration activities.
• Passion for spaceflight and space exploration.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.

Nice to Have

• 5+ years of proven ability in developing software supporting systems in critical applications (e.g., aviation, spaceflight, nuclear power, web services).
• Experience with Pytest, FastAPI.
• Proven software development using Grafana, Message Brokers (e.g., MQTT, RabbitMQ), AWS.
• Experience with fault-tolerant software design, human error assessment, and human error prevention and fault tolerance.
• Experience delivering a Mission Planning system for aircraft/spacecraft.
• Experience crafting and developing software for aerospace operations.
• Rust, C++17 or later.
• Timeseries databases (e.g., InfluxDB, Prometheus).
• Kubernetes.
• On-console operations experience in space-flight or other safety-critical operations.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, services-as-code, and cloud technologies.
• Understanding of space-based communications protocols, such as CCSDS.
• Compliance experience with safety-critical standards, such as DO-178 or NPR 7150.2D.
• Experience with spacecraft subsystems and associated software.

Qualifications

• Educational background includes a B.S. or higher degree in Software or Engineering related field.

Benefits & Perks

• 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%.
• Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance.
• Eligibility for benefits varies by role; check with recruiter for details.