Back-end Ground Software Engineer III - Lunar Permanence: Develop software for mission-critical functions supporting Blue Origin operations, including flight/ground system integration and testing, mission activity planning, and operations training. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define software requirements, architectures, and designs.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
