Fuel Cell Controls Engineer - Real-Time Spaceflight Embedded

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Parental leave

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Education support

Stock options

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in Washington state is seeking an experienced engineer to develop and integrate real-time embedded control systems for the Fuel Cell Generator assembly used in lunar transport programs.

You will work across mechanical, electrical, thermal, fluids, and gas systems, performing SIL/HIL testing, model analyses, and certification planning under DO-178/NPR 7150 guidelines. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or eligible to work in the U.S.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree or equivalent experience in relevant engineering fields.
• 3+ years’ experience in real-time embedded control for aerospace systems.
• Experience with Matlab/Simulink and autocoding.
• Experience with unit testing, SIL/HIL testing.
• Experience with Git or similar revision control.
• Proficient in Python and C/C++.
• Experience complying with DO-178 and NPR 7150.
• Strong teamwork and communication.
• U.S. citizenship or eligible to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Develop mechanical, electrical, thermal, fluid, and gaseous control systems from requirements to verification.
• Integrate sensors, actuators, and algorithms for a spaceflight-ready application.
• Modify signal processing and control algorithms for embedded platforms.
• Test software in real-time SIL and HIL environments.
• Support plant models analysis and design efficient logic and state machines.
• Contribute to verification, validation procedures and subsystem testing.
• Plan certification strategies per DO-178/NPR 7150; support ground and flight tests.

Skills

Real-time embedded control

Matlab/Simulink

Python

C/C++

Git

Team collaboration

Communication

Aerospace standards (DO-178/NPR 7150)

Education

B.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Physics, or related technical disciplines

M.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Physics, or related (preferred)

Tools

Matlab/Simulink

Git

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in Washington state is seeking an experienced engineer to develop and integrate real-time embedded control systems for the Fuel Cell Generator assembly used in lunar transport programs.

You will work across mechanical, electrical, thermal, fluids, and gas systems, performing SIL/HIL testing, model analyses, and certification planning under DO-178/NPR 7150 guidelines. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or eligible to work in the U.S.