Principal Satellite Flight Software Engineer - TeraWave

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

This position is part of Blue Origin’s Tera Wave business unit, a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetric data speeds of up to 6 Tbps worldwide. Tera Wave will consist of 5,408 optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit and medium Earth orbit, providing enterprise‑grade connectivity for critical operations worldwide.

• Architect, design, develop, and integrate core flight software for a next‑generation satellite platform
• Define scalable, reusable, and platform‑independent flight software frameworks, services, and design patterns to support multiple spacecraft configurations and future growth
• Architect, develop, and evolve key flight software components including core services, command and data handling (C&DH), telemetry, health monitoring, and fault‑management infrastructure
• Establish software architecture standards, coding guidelines, design patterns, and review practices to ensure maintainability, reliability, and mission readiness
• Partner closely with systems, avionics, GNC, communications, power, propulsion, thermal, payload, and autonomy teams to translate vehicle and subsystem‑level requirements into robust software implementations
• Conduct software design reviews, code reviews, and technical trade studies related to performance, fault tolerance, redundancy, scalability, and portability
• Support software integration, verification, and validation in software‑in‑the‑loop (SIL), hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL), and other mission‑representative test environments
• Develop and improve software engineering infrastructure including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, automated test frameworks, and debugging/diagnostic tools
• Contribute to technical documentation including software architecture descriptions, interface control documents, verification plans, and test procedures
• Design and implement secure over‑the‑air (OTA) software update capabilities for spacecraft, including validation, authenticated delivery, rollback, version control, and safe deployment in mission‑critical on‑orbit environments
• Ensure flight software architecture and implementation incorporate cybersecurity principles such as secure communications, access control, interface hardening, and resilient software design

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience developing embedded software for spacecraft or other mission‑critical real‑time systems
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python
• Experience with RTOS‑based embedded software development with Embedded Linux, VxWorks, or QNX
• Experience architecting and implementing complex flight software or mission‑critical embedded software systems
• Demonstrated technical depth across software design, implementation, and cross‑functional integration
• Experience with software lifecycle, configuration management, CI/CD, and verification/validation practices for mission‑critical systems
• Familiarity with communication protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, I2C, SPI, and RS‑422/485
• Experience applying secure software development and cybersecurity best practices in embedded or mission‑critical systems
• Experience with embedded software testing methodologies

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience with flight software frameworks such as core Flight System (cFS), F Prime, or similar
• Experience developing software for satellite constellations, distributed space systems, or networked embedded platforms
• Knowledge of satellite communications systems, spacecraft networking, and high‑throughput data handling
• Experience with software‑in‑the‑loop (SIL), hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL), and integrated spacecraft test environments
• Experience with fault‑tolerant computing, redundancy management, and resilient software architectures
• Knowledge of radiation‑hardened computing environments and software considerations for spaceflight
• Experience with communication satellite systems, optical…