Ground Software Engineer II – Blue Ring

Ground Software Engineer II – Blue Ring

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI Clearance required
• B.S. or higher degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• 2+ 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, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 diverse 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 verification and qualification, 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.