Flight Dynamics Software Engineer III - Blue Ring

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, test, verify, and deploy FDS microservices for orbit maintenance, collision avoidance, engine commodity bookkeeping, and flight dynamics product generation.
• Partner across teams, including flight vehicle systems, mission control infrastructure, operations subject areas, and customers, to define software requirements, architectures, and designs.
• Translate astrodynamics algorithms from the ATX team into production services, spanning the gap between numerical methods and software engineering.
• Create rapid prototypes to validate concepts and quantify technical risk.
• Coordinate with systems infrastructure and system engineers to plan, develop, and verify software products that meet requirements and safety-critical standards.
• Produce user documentation covering software architecture, design, verification plans, user manuals, and training materials.
• Follow software development processes that meet Blue Origin and customer-required standards to support software safety and reliability.
• Support frequent update cycles for pre-flight testing, mission validation exercises, and operations training events.
• During operator training, support mission control software operations including maintenance, defect correction, and improvements, plus 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 the development of materials for software design and verification plans, user manuals, and training.

Required qualifications

• B.S. or higher degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience across the full lifecycle of software development, including system design and analysis, requirement capture and development, implementation and verification, system integration, qualification, and release.
• Experience with software build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, and deployment.
• Proven software development skills in multiple languages, with the ability to implement in the language best suited to the problem domain.
• Familiarity with Linux and comfort with basic Unix system administration tasks.
• Ability to earn trust and maintain positive, professional relationships.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.

Technologies

• Python, REST, Kafka, GRPC, Linux, Unix, Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop

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%
• Education Support Program
• Stock Options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours/week
• Paid Time Off: up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and developing ground software for space flight operations.
• Expertise developing complex applications in Python.
• Experience with REST, Kafka, GRPC, web development and/or database development and interfaces.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with astrodynamics concepts such as orbit determination, maneuver planning, or collision avoidance.
• Familiarity developing software systems for telemetry data processing, fault monitoring, flight dynamics; mission activity planning and scheduling; spacecraft ephemeris generation and dissemination; and conjunction data processing and space situational awareness.
• Experience with spacecraft subsystems and associated subsystem software.

Application close date: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

Background check: Blue’s Standard Background Check is required for all positions. Depending on job profile, additional checks may be required, including DBIDS if at any time the role requires presence on a military installation, and additional requirements for certain drivers (including potential FMCSA-related processes). Certain job profiles may require the ability to obtain and maintain a Merchant Mariner Credential, including pre-employment and random drug testing and a DOT physical.