Blue Origin plans a Kraków ASIC engineering organization and shared laboratory for TeraWave, its planned satellite-communications network. A job listing posted November 4, 2026, names Blue Origin Poland II sp. Z.o.o. as the hiring entity and seeks an ASIC Engineering Director & Site Leader to establish and lead the operation. Blue Origin’s job listing describes the team and lab as plans for the Kraków site.
The hiring plan brings chip verification, prototype testing and communications-system development together in one Kraków engineering organization.
What Blue Origin plans for the Kraków team
The planned group would focus strongly on design verification, the work of checking whether a chip design behaves as intended. Its remit would also cover digital front-end design and architecture, embedded-hardware integration, and selected mixed-signal engineering. The listing describes the team as working on communications systems and system-on-chips (SoCs), integrated chips designed to handle system functions, for TeraWave.
The director would also lead a shared ASIC and prototype-integration lab. ASIC means application-specific integrated circuit: a chip designed for a defined purpose. Planned lab work includes FPGA prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop testing, software and firmware integration, modem and digital-beamformer development, and system-level debugging. FPGA prototypes use reprogrammable chips; hardware-in-the-loop testing connects real hardware with simulated system elements.
Together, those activities span chip design, testing and integration with communications equipment. The listing does not describe a completed facility; it assigns the site leader responsibility for establishing the organization and its lab.
How the work connects to TeraWave
Blue Origin describes TeraWave as a network for tens of thousands of enterprise, data-center and government users, with symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps. That is the company’s description of the planned network, not a result from the Kraków team.
Spider’s Web reported on November 9, 2026, that first deployment of the TeraWave modem and DSP-intensive digital-beamforming chip is planned for 2027, with satellite deployment planned to begin in the fourth quarter of 2027.
