Senior Embedded / Security / Boot Firmware Engineer Verified today
About the role
Blue Origin is pioneering TeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network delivering symmetrical data speeds up to 6 Tbps globally. You will develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves of custom ASICs in the TeraWave system, working closely with silicon, software, security, and systems engineering teams.
Key responsibilities
- Develop ROM code, bootloaders, and runtime firmware for secure enclaves within custom ASICs
- Design and implement firmware supporting secure boot, device attestation, and root-of-trust functionality
- Develop firmware infrastructure for OTA updates, recovery, and secure firmware lifecycle management
- Support manufacturing provisioning including device identity, keys, credentials, and secure configuration
- Develop secure debug, telemetry, tamper monitoring, and device recovery mechanisms
- Work with ASIC, security, software, and systems teams to define hardware/software interfaces and security requirements
- Support pre-silicon firmware development and validation using simulation, emulation, FPGA, or other platforms
- Support silicon bring-up, debugging, validation, and production deployment of secure-enclave firmware
- Develop high-quality, maintainable embedded software with unit testing, code review, and documentation
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
- 8 or more years developing embedded software or firmware for complex SoCs, ASICs, microcontrollers, or similar systems
- Strong C/C++ programming and low-level embedded software development experience
- Experience developing bootloaders, ROM code, board-support software, device drivers, or low-level firmware
- Strong understanding of embedded processor architectures, memory maps, interrupts, peripherals, and hardware/software interfaces
- Experience debugging embedded systems using JTAG, trace, logic analyzers, or equivalent tools
- Experience with embedded security concepts such as secure boot, root of trust, cryptographic key management, device identity, or secure firmware updates
- Ability to work closely with ASIC and hardware teams during pre-silicon development and silicon bring-up
Preferred qualifications
- Experience developing firmware for secure enclaves, hardware roots of trust, or security subsystems
- Experience with manufacturing provisioning, device attestation, anti-rollback, secure debug, and tamper detection
- Experience with cryptographic hardware accelerators, key storage, OTP/eFuse, TRNG, or secure memory
- Experience with custom ASIC or SoC pre-silicon verification and post-silicon bring-up
- Experience developing firmware for high-reliability aerospace, satellite, communications, networking, or other complex systems
- Familiarity with ARM or RISC-V processor architectures and associated embedded development environments