Reliability Engineer, Satellite & Payloads

Blue Origin; United States; On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock Options

Paid Time Off and holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to translate mission objectives into hardware reliability requirements across spacecraft bus electronics and payload hardware. You will lead analyses, ID critical items, and drive design robustness in collaboration with system and hardware teams.

Responsibilities include reliability predictions, FMEAs, and ensuring verification plans cover qualification, acceptance, and life testing for a high-rate constellation. U.S.

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical, aerospace, systems, reliability, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of reliability or mission-assurance engineering experience in aerospace or high-reliability products.
• Hands-on experience with FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, and quantitative reliability prediction.
• Knowledge of spacecraft bus and payload hardware (avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC sensors/actuators, thermal-control, RF/optical comms).
• Ability to derive verifiable requirements and link to analyses, tests, or demonstrations.
• U.S. citizen/national or lawful residency per requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute hardware reliability and maintainability approaches for satellites and payloads.
• Derive and allocate reliability and mission-life requirements to hardware and interfaces.
• Create and maintain reliability analyses (FMEA/FMECA, fault trees, RBDs) and critical-item lists.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve design robustness and margins.
• Perform reliability predictions and sensitivity studies with component/field data.
• Quantify impact of trades on reliability, availability, and fleet operations.
• Integrate radiation, thermal, mechanical cycling, and harness degradation into analyses.
• Define reliability demonstration, qualification, and verification plans.

Skills

FMEA/FMECA

Fault-tree analysis

Reliability prediction

Derating and margins

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering, applied mathematics/statistics

M.S./Ph.D. in a relevant field

Tools

DOORS

Jira

Windchill/PLM

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to translate mission objectives into hardware reliability requirements across spacecraft bus electronics and payload hardware. You will lead analyses, ID critical items, and drive design robustness in collaboration with system and hardware teams.

Responsibilities include reliability predictions, FMEAs, and ensuring verification plans cover qualification, acceptance, and life testing for a high-rate constellation. U.S.