Ground Software Test Engineer III - Space Mobility

Job Expired

Seattle, WA, United States

$137-137k

Full Time

a year ago

Job description

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! 

This role is a part of Test & Flight Operations team, providing centralized support to Business Units with the focus on design, build and maintenance of the ground systems, test and launch facilities across multiple locations.

Our Space Mobility program is looking for expert personnel to join their ground system team. We are a complementary team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth!As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will support the development of our mission operations software to ensure the correctness and performance of our ground software for spaceflight systems. You’ll be a key developer for implementing a first of it's kind integrated ground system in the cloud. This work is essential to support flexible training efforts, for mission controllers and this contribution will ensure mission safety and success.Our work scope is broad and deep, forging the path toward our vision of millions of people living and working in space. We're crafting our future in space, and we’re looking for dedicated and inspired people to join us!

This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Support the test, design and development of the integrated cloud infrastructure and mission operations ground system.
Work with customers to understand requirements and iteratively design and develop applications and systems to meet system and software integration and test needs.
Set up and maintain an automation test framework.
Support cloud-based infrastructure-as-code development, DevOps automation and CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing.
Configuration management of ground system software applications, including promotion of ground software into development, test and production environments.
Evaluate and integrate cloud-based services as platforms for your work, including storage options, delivery networks, and message queues.
Support with the Hardware Integration Lab and Software Integration Lab integration of flight avionics hardware and software.
Diagnose and fix software problems at multiple levels, including installation, deployment, configuration, server side and client-side issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

B.S. in computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related technical field
5+ years of proven experience
Proven skill at deploying production distributed systems to Amazon Web Services or similar using systems like Terraform, GitLab, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience with functional and regression testing of client/server applications, web applications and native applications.
Strong and active development skills in C / C++ and Python
Experience with REST API development and use
Strong written and verbal social skills, with the ability to work with and communicate to a diverse user base.
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals like algorithms and data structures.
Ability to solve problems by writing efficient working code, even when given incomplete or ambiguous requirements.
Excellent attention to detail and strong task ownership, someone who demonstrates pride in all work and willingness to perform low-level tasks when needed.
Desire to work hands-on, both independently and as part of a team, throughout the development, review, deployment, and support phases of the software product lifecycle.
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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master of Science in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
8+ years industry experience on large engineering systems
Experience with automation testing frameworks (i.e. Cucumber, Selenium, Cypress, Postman)
Experience with distributed simulation implementation standards such as HLA or DIS.
Experience writing software that efficiently handles the production, distribution and storage of large data sets.
Experience developing software for hardware in the loop testing
Strong debugging skills at the software/hardware boundary, and familiarity with software verification approaches
Experience leading development of software simulation testbed for a sophisticated physical system
Experience integrating with software simulation environments to support ground system software testing
Experience developing, verifying, certifying and releasing mission and safety-critical software systems.
Experience with mission operations and ground data systems
Familiarity with target hardware platforms (e.g. ARM)
Familiarity with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), Board Support Packages (BSPs)
Experience using and customizing continuous integration systems
Familiarity with electrical and electronic engineering concepts
Solid understanding of IP networking concepts
Experience with communications protocols and hardware drivers
Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD - e.g. Gitlab, Jenkins)
Experience with tools such as DOORs Next Generation (DNG), Gitlab, SVN, Docker, Jenkins, Docker Compose, Packer, Kubernetes, Ansible

Compensation range for on site WA applicants is

$136,800—$200,640 USD

Inclusivity Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Benefits

Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave (must be employed at time of birth or adoption), short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program available after 1 year of service.

Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays for all regular employees (including part-time), fixed-term, and interns.

Discretionary bonus: Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses in addition to base pay. Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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