Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin is recruiting semiconductor engineers in Kraków for its planned TeraWave satellite communications network, bringing Poland into the development of technology intended to connect businesses, data centres and government customers worldwide.
Polish technology outlet Spider’s Web reported on 9 November that the company plans offices and a laboratory in the city. It identified two registered entities, Blue Origin Poland and Blue Origin Poland II, and reported recruitment for engineering and management positions. The available evidence points to a research and development operation; it does not establish that Blue Origin is building a semiconductor fabrication plant in Poland. spidersweb.pl
A recruitment notice for a Kraków-based principal verification engineer provides a clearer picture of the work. The position supports TeraWave’s first internally developed chip programme, covering a high-throughput modem and digital signal-processing technology used to shape communications beams.
The notice gives 2027 as the target for the first “tapeout”, the milestone at which a completed chip design is prepared for manufacturing. That is a development target, rather than confirmation that commercial chips will be produced in Kraków that year.
Responsibilities include checking individual components and complete systems-on-chip, working with international engineering teams and developing methods to detect design errors. The advertisement seeks at least ten years of relevant experience, indicating a demand for senior semiconductor expertise. Invested in the Mission Job Board
Blue Origin announced TeraWave in January 2026. Its proposed architecture comprises 5,408 satellites: 5,280 in low Earth orbit and 128 in medium Earth orbit. The company says the system will combine radio-frequency and optical communications, with optical links designed to support speeds of up to six terabits per second.
Those figures describe the planned network’s capabilities. They are not speeds already available to customers, nor a promise that every connection will operate at the headline maximum. Blue Origin’s announced schedule envisages deployment beginning in the final quarter of 2027. Blue Origin
For Poland, the immediate significance lies in participation in chip development for a major space programme. Design and verification are specialised stages of the semiconductor value chain, even when physical manufacturing takes place elsewhere.
The scale of the Kraków operation remains unclear: the reviewed materials do not establish its investment budget or eventual workforce. What they do show is an active effort to recruit Polish-based engineers for technology central to Blue Origin’s communications ambitions.
