Lead Space Power Electronics & PCB Design Engineer

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Stock options

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin in Washington state is seeking a Lead Power Electronics and PCB Design Engineer to lead a team of circuit and PCB design engineers focused on PMAD electronics for spaceflight applications.

You will own board architecture, drive cost/mass reductions, ensure DFM/DFT and IPC compliance, and work with manufacturing partners to enable high-rate production of reliable PMAD modules for the TeraWave program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or closely related field with 8+ years electronics hardware development experience.
• Proficiency with PCB design tools such as Altium Designer or Cadence Allegro for mixed-signal/high-power layouts.
• Experience in power electronics hardware development including high-voltage switching and thermal management.
• Hands-on circuit design across analog, digital, or mixed-signal domains with component selection and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of DFM, DFT and IPC standards applied in production electronics.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of PCB and circuit design engineers for PMAD electronics design, optimization, and production readiness
• Own board architecture decisions for the PMAD, including power distribution, connector strategy, signal routing, current path design, protection interfaces, serviceability, and manufacturability
• Drive cost and mass reduction trades, architecture simplification, modularity, part count reduction, and recurring manufacturing cost improvements
• Lead electronics requirements definition, architecture trades, detailed design development, design verification, and test across the PMAD
• Design multi-layer PCBs for complex digital, mixed-signal, and high-voltage/high-power systems, with attention to EMC, creepage, clearance, signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal management
• Conduct power integrity analysis and design power distribution networks (PDN) for low-noise, high-current applications
• Work closely with mechanical packaging and harness teams to ensure PMAD design is scalable, integrable, and manufacturable
• Work with PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers to resolve fabrication and assembly issues and ensure DFM compliance
• Collaborate with supply chain to ensure component and material availability for production rate
• Support board bring-up, hardware debugging, and anomaly resolution during development, qualification, and integration
• Follow designs through formal verification, environmental qualification, and production release; support integration and flight acceptance activities
• Generate and maintain complete fabrication and assembly documentation including Gerber files, drill files, assembly drawings, and BOMs within the configuration management system

Skills

Power electronics hardware development

Circuit design (analog/digital/mixed-s

Leadership and cross-functional skills

Schematic and layout review

DFM/DFT and IPC standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or closely related field

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence Allegro

Job description

Blue Origin in Washington state is seeking a Lead Power Electronics and PCB Design Engineer to lead a team of circuit and PCB design engineers focused on PMAD electronics for spaceflight applications.

You will own board architecture, drive cost/mass reductions, ensure DFM/DFT and IPC compliance, and work with manufacturing partners to enable high-rate production of reliable PMAD modules for the TeraWave program.