Full-Time

Software Development Engineer I – Early Career 2025 University Grad

Enterprise Technology

Posted on 3/26/2025

Blue Origin

Blue Origin

10,001+ employees

Offers suborbital space tourism experiences

Compensation Overview

$99.4k - $139.2k/yr

Entry

No H1B Sponsorship

Seattle, WA, USA + 1 more

More locations: Huntsville, AL, USA

Relocation is provided for candidates moving to either location.

Category
Full-Stack Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Python
Software Testing
Git
Data Structures & Algorithms
Java
C#
C/C++
Development Operations (DevOps)
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 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.
  • Minimum of a BS Degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
  • Will have earned their degree within the last year and able to start by Fall 2025.
  • Experience with a modern, object-oriented language such as Java, C#, C++, Python, etc.
  • Applying computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.
  • Solving problems by writing efficient, working code.
  • Utilizing source control such as git.
  • Relevant internship/co-op and/or hands-on experience that demonstrate development of both technical skills as well as leadership qualities.
  • Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team on rapid development programs.
  • Flexible and adaptable mindset.
  • Self-driven with the ability to seek out requirements with minimal direction.
Responsibilities
  • As a part of a passionate team of engineers, you will contribute to the software development life cycle including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, and maintenance.
  • Based upon your placement, your projects may involve many aspects of applied systems analysis, software testing, quality assurance, DevOps, data analysis.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to understand their needs and design solutions that accelerate all phases of vehicle development, testing, and operations.
  • Troubleshoot and fix software issues at multiple levels, including both server-side and client side.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience using cloud services, particularly AWS.
  • Experience with modern development tools such as Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with rich user experience development in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks like React.
  • Typescript.
  • Automated Testing Development.
  • Data Structures.
  • Object Oriented Design.
  • Browser 3D Animation 3JS.
  • Foundational Model training.
  • Computational Engineering.

Blue Origin focuses on making space travel accessible through suborbital space tourism. The company offers unique experiences where passengers can travel to the edge of space aboard its reusable rocket, New Shepard. This rocket takes passengers on an 11-minute journey, allowing them to experience several minutes of weightlessness and stunning views of Earth from over 100 kilometers above. Blue Origin generates revenue by selling premium tickets for these flights, targeting affluent individuals and space enthusiasts. Unlike many competitors, Blue Origin not only provides space tourism but is also developing advanced rocket engines and technologies for potential sales to other aerospace companies and government agencies. The company's goal is to expand the market for space tourism and explore new opportunities in lunar landers and other space exploration technologies.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$116.1M

Headquarters

Kent, Washington

Founded

2000

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Growing interest in STEM education boosts Blue Origin's brand as an educational leader.
  • Blue Moon MK1 lander strengthens partnerships with NASA, opening lunar exploration opportunities.
  • Successful New Glenn mission tests boost Blue Origin's commercial and governmental contract potential.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from SpaceX threatens Blue Origin's market share and growth.
  • Recent workforce layoffs may indicate financial or operational challenges for Blue Origin.
  • Delays in New Glenn rocket program hinder Blue Origin's heavy-lift launch market entry.

What makes Blue Origin unique

  • Blue Origin focuses on reusable rockets, reducing space travel costs significantly.
  • The company offers unique suborbital space tourism experiences with its New Shepard rocket.
  • Blue Origin develops advanced rocket engines, enhancing control and efficiency in space travel.

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Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401k

PTO

Relocation

Education Support Program

Dog friendly

Bundled insurance rates

Company paid life & disability

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

2%
Technical.ly
Mar 19th, 2025
Arlington Entrepreneur Who Makes Stem Kits For Kids Is Headed To Space With Blue Origin

With the number of people in STEM occupations projected to grow over the next decade, an Arlington startup wants to lower barriers to that career path.    Lingo develops and sells educational, STEM-focused kits to teach students in middle and high school, as well as in college. Projects highlight both software and hardware, with one kit showing how to build and code a backup sensor for a car. Aisha Bowe, CEO and founder of Lingo and a former NASA rocket scientist, wanted to provide hands-on learning to students — an option she wished she had growing up herself. The traditional school model of memorizing and repeating information didn’t work for her, she explained. “It really was a labor of love,” Bowe told Technical.ly. “It was almost as though we were making something for our younger selves.”About 10,000 students have used Lingo kits across the US and in England, per Bowe. She and her team of three, who all have extensive engineering backgrounds, develop the kits themselves. Cofounder and COO Jarvis Sulcer has a master’s and PhD in nuclear science and engineering from Cornell University, for example. Bowe is also heading to space on a celebrity-filled Blue Origin flight, which will launch sometime this spring

GeekWire
Mar 18th, 2025
Blue Origin Rocket Engine Gives A Boost To Museum Of Flight’S Simonyi Space Gallery

The nozzle of Blue Origin’s donated BE-3U rocket engine gets shined up during installation at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. (Museum of Flight Photo)Seattle’s Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that’s been donated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture.The BE-3U rocket engine, which was used for on-the-ground development work that included hot-fire testing, was installed in the museum’s Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on Monday. Eventually, a 16-foot-tall model of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket will take its place beside the engine.Two BE-3U engines power the upper stage of the New Glenn orbital-class rocket, which was sent into orbit from the Kent, Wash.-based company’s Florida launch pad for the first time in January. That mission served to test not only the rocket, but also prototype components for Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft platform. The next New Glenn launch is expected in late spring.This isn’t the first time Bezos has played a role in getting rocket artifacts into the Museum of Flight. A decade ago, the museum unveiled pieces from the F-1 rocket engines that sent NASA’s Apollo 12 and Apollo 16 missions to the moon

PR Newswire
Mar 13th, 2025
Lingo Releases Space-Themed Stem Kits As Founder Prepares For Historic All-Female Blue Origin Flight

Designed to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals, the kits allow users to simulate a rocket launch countdown and prototype an earth sensing satelliteARLINGTON, Va., March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LINGO, the maker of innovative STEM lesson kits that have empowered over 10,000 students with hands-on engineering and coding skills, has launched two new space-themed kits just as founder and CEO Aisha Bowe prepares to make history on Blue Origin's NS-31 mission, which features the first all-female spaceflight crew since 1963.From community college to NASA engineer to space, Bowe's journey models what she hopes to inspire through LINGO: the belief that STEM careers are within reach for all students

GeekWire
Mar 11th, 2025
Blue Origin’S Blue Moon Lunar Lander Is On Deck To Deliver Nasa Payload To The Moon

An artist’s conception shows the Blue Moon MK1 lander on the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration)NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon’s south polar region as soon as this summer.The uncrewed lander would rank as the largest spacecraft sent to the moon’s surface, and would set the stage for a larger crewed lander that would be used for moon missions in the 2030s. By that time, if all proceeds according to plan, SpaceX’s Starship would take over the top spot as the world’s most massive moon ship.Blue Origin was created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2000 and is headquartered in Kent, Wash. For years, Bezos has voiced a strong interest in lunar exploration. “It’s time to go back to the moon, but this time to stay,” he declared in 2017.NASA’s payload for Blue Origin’s first mission to the moon is a suite of cameras that’s designed to record how the blast from Blue Moon’s engines disturbs the dirt and rocks at the lunar landing site. The data from that experiment — known as Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies, or SCALPSS — would be factored into the preparations for crewed landings.Similar payloads flew on Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander, which conducted a partially successful mission on the moon last year; and on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost M1 lander, which landed on the moon earlier this month

GeekWire
Feb 27th, 2025
Jeff Bezos’ Fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, Will Lead Female Crew On Blue Origin’S Next Space Trip

Blue Origin’s NS-31 spacefliers include Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee; Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings”; pop superstar Katy Perry; and Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen, three advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and math. (Blue Origin Photos)The next suborbital spaceflight planned by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is due to follow through on the dream of Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, to lead an all-woman crew — and that crew will include pop superstar Katy Perry and morning-TV host Gayle King.Three advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, will round out the six-person crew for a mission known as NS-31, Blue Origin announced today. The date for the flight hasn’t yet been announced, but the company says it will launch this spring.“This will be the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963,” Blue Origin said in a reference to the Soviet space pioneer.In a posting to Threads, Sanchez called her crewmates “fearless explorers.”“I really see this group as explorers, and storytellers, each of us about to be changed by a remarkable view of our beautiful planet,” she said. “The countdown starts now!”Sanchez talked about her desire to go into space with other women more than two years ago in a Wall Street Journal interview. At the time, she said her five crewmates would be “women who are making a difference in the world and who are impactful and have a message to send.”“I’m super-excited about it. And a little nervous,” she said.Sanchez, a licensed helicopter pilot and former TV news anchor, first started dating Bezos in 2019 after the announcement of his divorce from MacKenzie Scott