GN&C Hardware Engineer II — Lunar Lander

Blue Origin; Florida; On-site; USD 98,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Education support program

Stock options

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a spacecraft hardware engineer to contribute to the GN&C subsystem development and integration for the Blue Moon program. You will work on navigation hardware requirements, sensor performance trades, and verification activities across flight and ground tests.

You will collaborate with vehicle systems, mechanical design, structures, and test teams to ensure design coordination and meet vehicle performance deliverables, while communicating complex technical information

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in engineering or related field.
• Experience with GN&C hardware such as IMUs, GPS, star trackers, or EO/IR sensors.
• Experience in integration and test support.
• Operational knowledge of inertial and relative navigation sensors.
• Experience in verification and test of navigation systems.
• Proficiency in avionics requirements and procurement specifications.
• Experience with spacecraft avionics communications protocols (RS-422, Spacewire, etc.)
• Experience with Creo Parametric (or other CAD tools)
• Proven system engineering and configuration leadership skills
• Experience with Windchill and Jama

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of GN&C hardware requirements from system level specifications with flow downs to subsystem and component levels, and companion verification methods
• Support the design of the GN&C hardware configuration with design studies, and execute sensor performance trades
• Contribute to the procurement, vendor coordination, delivery, acceptance, installation, verification, validation, qualification, and certification of the navigation hardware
• Guide and perform testing and analyses such as flight tests, thermal vacuum tests, vibration tests, etc. to validate top-level system specifications and requirements, and to establish performance specifications of the sensors
• Support the test and verification campaign of the GN&C hardware
• Support the development and execution of component-level navigation test programs, including sensor characterization, sensor modeling, and integrated on-vehicle testing
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing, on-vehicle functional testing, and flight testing

Skills

GN&C hardware

Inertial navigation sensors

GPS receivers

Star trackers

EO/IR sensors

Navigation sensor knowledge

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Engineering

Tools

Creo Parametric

CAD tools

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a spacecraft hardware engineer to contribute to the GN&C subsystem development and integration for the Blue Moon program. You will work on navigation hardware requirements, sensor performance trades, and verification activities across flight and ground tests.

You will collaborate with vehicle systems, mechanical design, structures, and test teams to ensure design coordination and meet vehicle performance deliverables, while communicating complex technical information