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Blue Origin

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Principal L1 PHY & Modem Implementation Engineer

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Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
Kraków, Poland
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About the job

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
  • 10+ years of experience in L1 PHY software, modem implementation, DSP implementation, embedded communications software, or related areas.
  • Strong understanding of OFDM-based communication systems and major transmit and receive PHY processing chains.
  • Experience implementing or integrating L1 PHY processing on CPUs, DSPs, SoCs, FPGAs, ASIC accelerators, or heterogeneous processing architectures.
  • Strong understanding of hardware/software partitioning and hardware acceleration of computationally intensive modem functions.
  • Experience with performance profiling and optimization, multicore processing, memory management, and efficient data movement.
  • Experience working with interfaces between L1 software, embedded firmware, and custom hardware or hardware accelerators.
  • Ability to work across modem, DSP, ASIC, FPGA, firmware, BSP, and system engineering teams.
Responsibilities
  • Develop and optimize L1 PHY and modem implementations for high-throughput satellite communication systems.
  • Implement and integrate PHY processing functions including framing, FEC processing, rate matching, scrambling, modulation/demodulation, FFT/IFFT processing, reference-signal processing, and related transmit and receive functions.
  • Develop and optimize C/C++ or equivalent implementations of L1 PHY and DSP processing functions for embedded and real-time modem systems.
  • Define and evaluate hardware/software partitioning of modem functions across programmable processors, DSP engines, FPGA/ASIC hardware accelerators, and embedded software.
  • Analyze and optimize modem processing across throughput, latency, computational complexity, memory bandwidth, data movement, and processor utilization.
  • Optimize multicore processing, memory organization, buffering, concurrency, and hardware-accelerator utilization for high-throughput L1 processing.
  • Work closely with modem algorithm engineers to translate communications and DSP algorithms into efficient production implementations.
  • Work closely with ASIC, FPGA, firmware, BSP, and system engineering teams to define and integrate interfaces between L1 software and modem hardware accelerators.
  • Support pre-silicon verification, simulation, prototyping, system integration, and post-silicon validation of L1 PHY and modem implementations.
  • Debug complex system-level issues spanning L1 software, DSP processing, hardware accelerators, firmware, and ASIC interfaces.
  • Evaluate modem architecture and implementation tradeoffs across performance, complexity, throughput, latency, memory, power, and hardware resources.
  • Provide technical guidance and contribute to key L1 PHY, hardware/software partitioning, and modem implementation architecture decisions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications, Signal Processing, or a related field.
  • Deep experience with L1 PHY and modem implementation for wireless, cellular, satellite, or broadband communication systems.
  • Experience with FEC processing including LDPC, Turbo, or Polar coding, rate matching, and LLR processing.
  • Experience with FFT/IFFT processing, modulation/demodulation, MIMO, beamforming, or other computationally intensive PHY functions.
  • Familiarity with synchronization, carrier and sampling frequency offset compensation, timing recovery, channel estimation, equalization, and SNR estimation from an implementation and integration perspective.
  • Experience with SIMD/vector processing, multicore optimization, DSP processors, or other high-performance embedded computing architectures.
  • Experience with fixed-point implementation and translation of floating-point DSP algorithms into production implementations.
  • Experience with MATLAB, Python, or equivalent environments for simulation, analysis, and implementation validation.
  • Experience with embedded real-time operating systems, BSPs, device drivers, or SoC initialization.
  • Experience with pre-silicon simulation, FPGA prototyping, hardware emulation, or post-silicon modem bring-up and validation.
  • Experience with satellite or non-terrestrial communication systems.
  • Familiarity with 3GPP PHY specifications and modern broadband wireless communication systems.

About the company

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Blue Origin

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Blue Origin builds rockets, engines and spacecraft for commercial satellite operators and government space programs. Its New Glenn orbital rocket uses a reusable first stage, while Blue Moon landers are designed to transport cargo and astronauts to the lunar surface. The company designs and manufactures liquid-fueled propulsion systems, and its New Shepard vehicle is built for short suborbital trips carrying people and research payloads. Customers pay for launch services and engines, and government development contracts fund work on systems for exploration beyond Earth orbit. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, Blue Origin is headquartered in Kent, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$10.1B

Headquarters

Kent, Washington

Founded

2000

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What believers are saying

  • Blue supports retirement savings: its 401(k) matches employee contributions through the first 5% of compensation.
  • Further study receives company funding: Blue Origin financially supports employees pursuing higher education.
  • Lunar demand adds funded work: NASA awarded Blue $188 million for rover delivery task orders in May 2026.

What critics are saying

  • New Shepard teams face a reset: Blue's January 2026 pause lasts at least two years, redirecting resources toward lunar development.
  • Hotfire damage disrupted operations: New Glenn's May 2026 hotfire anomaly destroyed its lightning tower and transporter-erector.
  • Blue bears lunar cost pressure: NASA's $3.4 billion human-lander contract fixes the price of development and demonstrations.

What makes Blue Origin unique

  • Blue powers a competitor: its BE-4 engines fly on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket.
  • Bulky payloads fit New Glenn: its seven-meter fairing holds twice the volume of five-meter designs.
  • Blue Ring crosses propulsion categories: its spacecraft design combines solar electric and chemical propulsion.

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  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO
  • Relocation
  • Education Support Program
  • Dog friendly
  • Bundled insurance rates
  • Company paid life & disability

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Mobile World Live
Oct 19th, 2026
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Morning Top News
Oct 16th, 2026
Blue Origin plans $330 million Florida expansion to ramp New Glenn launches.

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Oct 15th, 2026
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