Senior Software Engineer - AI Services

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At Blue Origin, 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. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! 

The Enterprise Data Management & Analytics team supervises the platform and data management capabilities that enable analytics, data engineering and data science across the company. We are constantly innovating in the ways we are automating and accelerating the creation of products using innovative software and hardware technologies. We use the latest AWS technologies, big data approaches, and LLM to build distributed, highly available systems to achieve our goals. 

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Software Engineer – AI services to join our agentic business insight team. This role requires an individual with a deep understanding of software development, machine learning and a broad range of technical capabilities. The ideal candidate will be hands-on and ready to dive in. 

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! 

• Design and implement scalable, low-latency AI services powering metadata generation and feature extraction 
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering peers to understand and translate business requirements into flexible design solutions 
• Ensure that AI/ML systems comply with security standards and best practices, addressing data privacy and protection concerns 
• Develop and deploy Agentic AI solutions, including autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered workflows, that transform business processes across Finance, Supply Chain, and other enterprise domains 
• Own features end‑to‑end: from project estimation and architecture review through coding, deployment, and post‑launch measurement 
• Build resilient systems with strong observability, bringing to bear automated testing, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform. 
• Lead and participate in on‑call rotations; drive root‑cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational excellence 

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related field. 
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with focus on building RESTful APIs and AI/ML applications, in cloud environments, and containerized workloads (we use AWS) 
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python (Preferred) or Java 
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations 
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, and problem-solving 

• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, fine-tuning, and/or AI agent orchestration frameworks 
• Experience developing front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks 

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Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.