Senior Wireless Software Engineer MAC Control Plane TeraWave

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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

Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based communications with TeraWave a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This multi-orbit constellation will consist of optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO) providing enterprise-grade connectivity for critical operations worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the TeraWave Software and Networking Team you design and implement control-plane software for a custom Media Access Control (MAC) layer supporting Blue Origins TeraWave network.

The MAC control plane governs radio-resource allocation link establishment scheduling quality of service link adaptation and mobility across dynamic satellite-to-ground connections. As such you help develop purpose-built MAC protocols and control mechanisms that address the scale propagation characteristics mobility and availability requirements of the TeraWave architecture.

You work closely with PHY modem networking platform and systems engineers to deliver a high-throughput predictable-latency wireless stack designed specifically for space-based communications.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement MAC control-plane software for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint satellite communication links.

• Develop scalable TDMA demand-assigned multiple access admission-control and resource-allocation algorithms for many beams links and terminals.

• Implement state machines for link establishment maintenance reconfiguration teardown fault recovery and transitions between beams satellites and gateways.

• Develop MAC control logic for QoS enforcement traffic prioritization flow control retransmission and coordinated link adaptation with PHY and modem teams.

• Define and implement interfaces between the MAC control plane PHY layer modem hardware networking data plane and hardware-accelerated MAC functions.

• Evaluate centralized distributed and hierarchical MAC-control architectures accounting for control latency stale state partial failures and constellation-scale operation.

• Build simulation test telemetry and performance-analysis capabilities to validate protocol behavior under mobility fading congestion and failure scenarios.

• Lead MAC control-plane development from architecture and prototyping through hardware integration system qualification and operational deployment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or related technical field.

• Seven or more years of software-development experience in wireless networking communication systems embedded systems or high-performance networking.

• Advanced proficiency in C or C with concurrent timing-sensitive software in Linux real-time Linux or RTOS environments.

• Experience designing or implementing wireless MAC protocols resource schedulers protocol state machines flow-control mechanisms or QoS systems.

• Experience developing software through hardware integration system testing performance characterization and production deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing MAC or link-layer software for satellite non-terrestrial cellular fixed wireless or other custom communication platforms.

• Knowledge of TDMA DAMA OFDMA link adaptation adaptive modulation and coding ARQ or HARQ admission control and radio-resource management.

• Experience integrating control-plane software with PHY implementations FPGAs DSPs modems or custom SoCs.

• Experience with high-performance packet-processing technologies such as DPDK VPP eBPF or hardware packet-processing engines.

• Experience using simulation and analysis environments such as ns-3 MATLAB Python or custom discrete-event simulators.

• Experience designing distributed control systems that operate under constrained bandwidth variable latency partial connectivity or stale system state.

Base Pay Range for:

CA applicants is $248830.00 - $348361.65 WA applicants is $248830.00 - $348361.65

Other site ranges may differ

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Benefits

• Benefits include: 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% and an 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 and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the companys intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the companys results or other factors at the companys sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

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