Sr. Principal Architect, Systems and Mission Software

Job summary

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

Benefits

Qualifications

• across flight and ground systems.
• Define software configuration management and versioning strategies that support a high-cadence, multi-team development environment with clear traceability between deployed and validated configurations.
• Evaluate architecture options for security, resilience, and fault tolerance, ensuring the system maintains safe vehicle operations and service continuity under degraded or anomalous conditions.
• Contribute to team growth through hiring, identifying capability gaps, and mentoring software engineers and architects across the organization.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent technical field; master's degree preferred.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience with significant experience architecting and integrating large-scale distributed systems spanning multiple domains or organizational teams.
• Demonstrated experience defining and owning end-to-end software architecture across both flight and ground systems in a spacecraft or satellite program.
• Strong working knowledge of CICD principles and practices, including experience designing or owning program-wide pipelines that integrate verification and validation processes.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and Rust, with demonstrated experience in flight or safety-critical embedded software contexts.
• Working knowledge of hardware constraints and their implications for software architecture, including processor and MCU selection, memory limitations, and fault management in embedded and flight software contexts.
• Experience contributing to the architecture of over-the-air software update systems for operational embedded or flight systems, with emphasis on safety, reliability, and service continuity.
• Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted development

Responsibilities

• You will own the program -wide CICD architecture, linking software releases across all contributing teams with verification and validation processes to enable rapid, safe deployment at constellation scale.
• You will drive adoption of common
• include but are not limited to:
• Own the program-wide CICD architecture, linking software releases from all contributing teams with verification and validation processes to enable rapid, safe, and traceable deployment at constellation scale.
• Define and own the system-level architecture for over-the-air software updates, ensuring safe, seamless deployment across a live operational constellation without disruption to service or vehicle safety.
• Drive adoption of common

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Travel

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Relocation