Blue Origin to open Kraków chip design center for TeraWave

According to the job listing, the person in that role will join the ASIC & Networking team and support TeraWave's first in-house chip program. It covers a high-throughput modem and a DSP-intensive digital beamforming chip, with a first deployment planned for 2027. The work includes IP and subsystem verification as well as full SoC verification, covering CPU subsystems, performance-critical interconnects, security, high-speed peripherals and modem data paths.

What TeraWave is

TeraWave is meant to be a global ultra-fast satellite network of 5,408 satellites: 5,280 in low Earth orbit (LEO) and 128 in medium Earth orbit (MEO). The satellites will talk to each other over laser links. Blue Origin cites throughput of up to 6 Tb/s, with LEO satellites offering connections of up to 144 Gb/s, and says speeds will be symmetrical, so upload matches download.

Unlike Starlink, TeraWave is not aimed mainly at consumers. Blue Origin targets data centers, large enterprises, and government and military customers, for whom reliability and bandwidth matter most. The network is pitched as an alternative or complement to fiber and undersea cables, especially where ground infrastructure is hard or costly to build, and as a backup route if conventional networks fail.

The company plans to serve around 100,000 customers and to begin deploying satellites in the fourth quarter of 2027. That would make TeraWave a notable competitor to SpaceX, though in a different and more demanding market segment. For Poland, the Kraków center adds a high-end semiconductor design team to the country's growing space and electronics sector.