Blue Origin
Sr Flight Software Engineer - Autonomous & Intelligent System Management, AI - S
Blue Origin, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
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! We are a team with wide-ranging skillsets that value safety, problem-solving and diversity. These positions will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe space flight. Join us in enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. This position is part of the Space Systems Development (SSD) business unit. SSD is Blue Origin's advanced development arm dedicated to developing mission architectures, creating, and feeding new technologies into our existing offerings, building our next generation of leaders, and commercializing new platforms that fuel Blue Origin's growth and further its mission. Our work scope is broad and deep, forging the path toward our vision of millions of people living and working in space. As part of a diverse and hardworking team of engineers and technicians within the Space System Development (SSD) business unit, you will contribute to the design of the flight software intelligent system for future space systems operating in orbital and deep space environment. Within a small, passionate, and accomplished team, you will contribute to developing intelligent fault tolerant flight software responsible for the overall command and control of a significant autonomous space system providing state-of-the-art space station services with Blue Origin Orbital Reef and NASA Commercial Destination Free Flyer (CDFF) program. This includes defining architectures and requirements, cross-functional activities with subsystem stakeholders, development and verification, and edge artificial intelligence modalities. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration, and your dedicated commitment and detailed attention will further the cause of safe spaceflight as we build a road to space. You will create and maintain artifacts for flight software designs and present infrastructure, application, intelligent flight software designs at gated reviews. We are looking for engineers to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required. If you're excited by solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, and completing challenging activities, please apply! Responsibilities: * Design and develop vehicle autonomous system management and fault management flight software * Support design and development of flight software functional architecture for orbital space system * Support design and integration of edge Artificial Intelligence modalities into embedded flight software architecture * Design and Develop specialized embedded Intelligent software, computer vision software for autonomous and semiautonomous operations, including system management, robotics, proximity, docking, and payload operations * Evaluate, decompose, and create requirements for safety-critical, real-time operating systems * Support trade studies for infrastructure, system and application embedded flight software architectures and implementations * Work with cross-functional stakeholders to define software concepts of operations, functions and requirements, including robotics, proximity and docking fiducials, * Author unit tests, documentation, and participate in design and code reviews * Integrate space system flight software components, create and run unit tests, validate on cross-platform software testbed Hardware-in-the-Loop and simulator environment * Integrate and d