Electrical Engineer – Space Propulsion & Systems

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an Electrical Engineer III for the Greater Seattle area to deliver end-to-end electrical engineering solutions spanning power distribution, instrumentation, and controls. You will collaborate with operations, manufacturing, and test teams to ensure safe, reliable electrical systems for spaceflight applications.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting, maintenance support, and designing for hazardous locations, with opportunities to apply AI tools to improve analysis and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience.
• Experience with low-voltage and medium-voltage systems.
• Functional knowledge of motors, generators, and facility power systems.
• Experience with instrumentation and controls, including hardware such as Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs).
• Hands-on experience with preventative and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Familiarity with Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and de-energization procedures.
• Demonstrated experience working in dynamic, high-energy operational environments.
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.
• Proficiency using AI tools in an engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, and implement electrical engineering solutions spanning power distribution, motor/generator systems, instrumentation, and controls, along with the integration challenges that bridge these domains.
• Serve as a technical contributor on a small team with wide-ranging scope, independently determining technical approaches and adapting to shifting priorities and problem types.
• Interface with multiple stakeholder groups—including operations, manufacturing, test, and external partners—to gather requirements, communicate technical direction, and align on solutions.
• Provide engineering input across supporting disciplines, including safety and failure-effects analysis, systems engineering, configuration management, quality, work-instruction authoring, work scheduling, technical design/drafting, and process development.
• Perform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis on electrical and electromechanical systems, and recommend corrective actions.
• Support preventative and corrective maintenance of electrical systems, including identifying and supporting procurement of critical spare parts.
• Configure and support basic networking infrastructures.
• Apply and support Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), de-energization, and other safe-work practices in design and execution.
• Design and evaluate electrical systems for installation in hazardous (classified) locations.
• Leverage AI-enabled engineering tools to improve analysis, documentation, and design efficiency.
• Document designs, analyses, and decisions to support traceability and configuration control.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Power distribution

Instrumentation

Troubleshooting

Safety procedures

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs)

PLC/controls platforms

Networking basics

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an Electrical Engineer III for the Greater Seattle area to deliver end-to-end electrical engineering solutions spanning power distribution, instrumentation, and controls. You will collaborate with operations, manufacturing, and test teams to ensure safe, reliable electrical systems for spaceflight applications.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting, maintenance support, and designing for hazardous locations, with opportunities to apply AI tools to improve analysis and