Principal Software Verification Manage

Job Description As manager of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you ensure that the code that runs spaceships works correctly. Your team will be responsible for ensuring requirements are verifiable, architecting verification plans, implementing continuous integration pipelines and artifact management tools, writing code to test flight and ground code, and being the voice of independent verification of avionics software within the company. It’s a position that will directly impact the history of space exploration and which requires your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight. Responsibilities: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to create verification plans, frameworks, tools, and tests for safety critical, real-time, embedded software that support control and diagnostics of human capable spacecraft, for both orbital and sub-orbital programs. Review and refactor software requirements and designs for verifiability. Write code to verify code in C, C , and Python. Design and write tests to assure code meets safety critical standards and functions. Help guide the ecosystem around common software verification clients and tooling. Guide development of hardware and software architectures supporting advanced spaceflight systems. Be actively involved in tool development including infrastructure to support build, debugging, and deployment. Qualifications: Passion for getting people into space and back again safely. Minimum of a B.S. degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, aerospace, or related field. 12 years of software development and testing experience including multi-threaded programming. Demonstrable systems software development and verification experience at the Platform, OS, and Application software boundaries. Strong software development and debugging skills, particularly in C/C . Passion for and expertise at software test. Experience leading teams through rigorous verification activities per DO-178C or comparable standards. Experience interacting collaboratively with software development teams while maintaining objectivity and independence Hands-on experience with Testing Frameworks and Continuous Integration pipelines. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal 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. Desired: Experience developing and testing real-time embedded systems, gaming systems, control systems, device drivers, or mobile devices. Experience with safety-critical software development. Experience with hardware debug probes, static analysis and code coverage tools, and integration of such tools into automated verification processes. Familiarity with sensors and actuators including GPS, accelerometers, rate gyros, pressure or temperature sensors. Hands-on experience with Linux, ThreadX, Docker, GNU toolchain, Python, C#, MATLAB/Simulink, real-time operating systems, serial communications, IP networking, or developing secure systems. 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. Equal Employment Opportunity Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here and here. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com. Benefits Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match. Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 11 holidays