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Job Summary:
Blue Origin is a company focused on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Space Segment Software Systems Engineer will work on ensuring spacecraft meet critical partners' needs and integrate flight software into test environments, while also developing standards and processes for software development and verification.
Responsibilities:
• Support the Flight Software and other subsystem teams in defining system level software requirements and allocations to define the software implementation approach for the spacecraft.
• Coordinate overall software architecture strategy and implementation approach.
• Create guidelines and procedures defining software development, implementation, and verification strategies.
• Oversee software development resources and allocations, as well as the creation and maintenance of software-related interface control documents (ICDs).
• Conduct software life cycle reviews, including code walkthroughs, requirements reviews, test readiness and results reviews and acceptance test reviews.
• Review and approve required software management plans (software development, test, maintenance, configuration management and fault management).
• Oversee flight software-related verification and spacecraft integration test activities.
• Provided mentoring and direct technical assistance to engineering teams, covering development, testing and systems engineering of flight software, commands, telemetry and conops.
• Coordinate with users (internal, payload, or other) to ensure the software interfaces are adequate and agreed to.
• Assist in the development of software requirements, ensuring they are understandable, valid, traceable, and verifiable.
• Provide technical mentoring for junior engineers across Blue Ring.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Aerospace engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
• Demonstrated understanding of systems engineering fundamentals and experience in multiple system lifecycle phases.
• 10+ years of related experience in the design, development, and test of aerospace systems, preferably spacecraft.
• Familiarity with spacecraft operations, command & control, and/or spacecraft communications.
• Experience developing or testing flight software.
• Experience developing an integrated system with depth in one or more spacecraft subsystems, and/or system design and integration.
• Familiarity with spacecraft flight software design and architecture (e.g. cFS, F Prime, etc.).
• Understanding of embedded software development concepts, including hardware integration, message buses, scheduling, and network communication.
• Domain experience with spacecraft systems and subsystem functions, interfaces, and communication protocols (i.e. serial, 1553, Ethernet, embedded software, etc.).
• Experience with CCSDS standards, including command and telemetry formats.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Preferred:
• M.S. degree in a relevant technical field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with CI poly
• Demonstrated experience debugging and identifying root cause at the hardware/software boundary.
• Experience defining and performing complex trade studies.
• Experience using hardware and software testbeds and lab environments for software and system verification.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
• Jira, gitlab, CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with, or experience in, Model-Based Systems Engineering, such as System Models and/or System Architecture diagrams.
Company:
Blue Origin is an aerospace company that focuses on lowering the cost of spaceflight and helping to explore the solar system. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Kent, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.