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This isn't a "who is hiring?" thread obviously, but if anyone wants to be a part of our team we are always looking for folks who share our passion for space, es
by thematt 11y ago
This isn't a "who is hiring?" thread obviously, but if anyone wants to be a part of our team we are always looking for folks who share our passion for space, especially those who happen to build software too!
https://www.blueorigin.com/careers https://www.blueorigin.com/careers
Needless to say, there are tons of interesting problems to solve and opportunities to make a huge impact.
- BrandonMarc 11y agoTempting. Are your working hours more reasonable than SpaceX? With a family to love, 70-hour weeks just don't fit well.
- victor9000 11y agoI do not envy those who place their quality of life in the middle of a pissing contest between Bezos and Musk.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoProgress is not cheap, nor easy on the soul.
- gaze 11y agoYeah but... to a degree, right? Many amazing things have been accomplished by people not working themselves to death. If the workforce convinces itself that people are expendable then I suppose people are expendable! I however choose to fight this attitude. Frightened, stressed people work hastefully and make mistakes... somehow the worst thing imaginable for a space exploration company, right?
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- jzwinck 11y agoMany truly incredible things were built at some cost in human lives. I recently watched a documentary which said large tunneling projects expected to lose one man per X miles dug, a few decades ago. I'm not saying you should be willing to die for your work. But historically someone always seems to be. Not least of all in the space business.
- scrollaway 11y agoThe truly incredible things tend to be created/discovered by the most passionate. This means you'll have selection bias on the people who have a tendency to "work themselves to death" for the cause they're passionate about. It does not mean that you have to work yourself to death to arrive there.
- agumonkey 11y agoThis makes Steve Jobs 'tyrannic' glow a little pale all of a sudden.
- jahaja 11y agoAre you really completely oblivious to the working conditions of workers at those times? I think the workers were as passionate about their work as the capitalist was for worker welfare and safety expenses. Sorry but this comment and some child comments are truly shocking for me in their historical ignorance.
- saiya-jin 11y ago
- Wingman4l7 11y agoWell, to use our last space race as an example: several engineers who worked on Apollo said during interviews that they strongly suspected the consistently long hours they and many others worked directly contributed to later divorces. (My source is the excellent series Moon Machines, for those curious; I believe it was the Navigation episode.)
- kzhahou 11y agoProgress demands not one tear his soul asunder! As the sweat of a man can be stretched far, so too can the Company above increase their efforts of hiring.
- hyperbovine 11y agoI'm happy to let somebody else do the spending.
- gaze 11y agoWell we all know that Bezos is known for his healthy and reasonable approach to work-life balance.
- spyspy 11y agoI'm surprised The Times was even invited for the tour.
- jMyles 11y agoSerious question: can applicants be assured that the project won't be used to kill people? One can never be too sure when government grants are paying the bills.
- askafriend 11y agoWhatever assurances they can give you today cannot be generalized to tomorrow.
- jMyles 11y agoWell, something like a, "look at the ethical guidelines in our bylaws" might be helpful, even amidst inability to predict the future.
- outworlder 11y agoGetting a "Won't be" assurance is probably going to be next to impossible. Anything could happen in such an unspecified amount of time. A "isn't currently intended to" would likely be easier to get. That said, with so many viable missile platforms, why would Blue Origin be used for that?
- jMyles 11y ago> That said, with so many viable missile platforms, why would Blue Origin be used for that? I know very little about the vertical. As a matter of principle, I typically avoid gigs that involve government funding. However, this one is more interesting than most.
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- pzb 11y agoHow do you do that? Where do you draw the line? Basically every company I've worked for has, at some point and to varying levels, taken government funding. It could be buying off the shelf products in the same manner as every other customer, it could be the company creating a modified product for the government, or it could be taking funding in the form of R&D tax credits.
- Terr_ 11y agoMy impression is that unless you're a C++ developer doing avionics, all the development jobs are back in "cost center" areas. Do you think that's accurate? I considered applying a few months ago but my current employer (large conglom-o-corp that ate my old company) has made me nervous about being walled-off as a code-monkey.
- Scea91 11y agoThere definitely is a space for vast amount of kinds of interesting software engineering and research jobs.
- jxm262 11y agoI also had that same impression. I mentioned these thoughts in another thread here on HN (regarding SpaceX) and one of the engineers chimed in saying they have many positions across different areas. I still think it would be cool to join something like this, but would prefer to work on some lower level stuff. I'm currently a Full Stack web developer. Is there a path to from my current position to something more systems related? Has anyone made this transition before?
- softawre 11y agoNo, it is currently impossible to learn how to do C++/systems programming, the knowledge doesn't exist! Are you serious? People come to be systems programmers with no programming experience, obviously with some web/server experience will be even more suited to learn it.
- mrb 11y ago"...opportunities to make a huge impact" Hopefully, not a literal impact :)
- robin_reala 11y agoPresumably ‘anyone’ is ‘anyone that’s a US citizen’?
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- erikb 11y agoYou try to push the world to the next level but only hire in the US? There must be a lot of stuff that you need which is not really limited by US law and that people could work on from their home countries. Examples just in software engineering: Cloud infrastructure, user interfaces, communication platforms, open source projects that are 90% of where you needed them to be to use them, BSP layers for embedded systems you want to use.
- josh2600 11y agoThey likely will have ITAR hardware in the same workspace as the software guys to minimize logistical overhead. Foreign nationals can't see any ITAR stuff.
- arethuza 11y ago"Foreign nationals can't see any ITAR stuff." If only it was that simple - in a former job I designed systems for a non-US multinational that did ITAR work and it was incredibly painful to work out the rules for who could or could not see particular items of data.
- Mvandenbergh 11y agoSlight nitpick - US permanent residents (green card holders) can see ITAR stuff even though they're foreign nationals.
- arethuza 11y agoI would suspect that a lot of what they do would probably be covered by ITAR. If that is the case then the compliance burden is probably going to be a lot easier to meet if everyone is US based.
- yomly 11y agoWho would want aliens working on their spaceship, after all...
- a_imho 11y agoI understand there could be regulations, but these things not add up for me. >Applicants must be a United States citizen ... >We hold all information confidential and are an equal opportunity employer. [1]Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, protects applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), or national origin. [1]http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster...