Satellite & Payload Reliability Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k) with match

Education Support

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a TeraWave Reliability Engineer to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF and optical payload hardware, avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, and GNC systems. You will translate mission objectives into reliability requirements, perform analyses, and guide design decisions for high-rate satellite constellations.

The role requires senior-level experience in aerospace reliability, strong cross-functional collaboration, and the

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in reliability, systems, spacecraft, payload, avionics, or mission-assurance engineering.
• Hands-on experience with FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, critical-item management, or quantitative reliability prediction.
• Knowledge of spacecraft bus and payload hardware such as avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC sensors and actuators, thermal-control hardware, structures and mechanisms, RF/optical.
• Ability to derive clear, verifiable requirements and connect those requirements to analysis, test, inspection, or demonstration evidence.
• Ability to work across hardware design, manufacturing, supplier, test, quality, and operations teams and to present risk to leadership.
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or eligible status.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the TeraWave hardware reliability approach across satellites and payload hardware.
• Derive and allocate reliability requirements from system objectives to hardware and LRUs.
• Perform reliability analyses: FMEAs, fault trees, block diagrams, and single-point-failure assessments.
• Collaborate with system architects to improve design robustness and margins.
• Conduct reliability predictions and sensitivity studies using data from components and heritage.
• Integrate radiation effects, EEE parts issues, and manufacturing variation into analyses.

Skills

FMEA / FMECA

Fault-tree analysis

Reliability prediction

Cross-functional teamwork

Requirements derivation

Education

B.S. in Electrical/Aerospace/Systems Engineering

Tools

DOORS/Next Gen

Jira

Windchill/PLM

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a TeraWave Reliability Engineer to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF and optical payload hardware, avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, and GNC systems. You will translate mission objectives into reliability requirements, perform analyses, and guide design decisions for high-rate satellite constellations.

The role requires senior-level experience in aerospace reliability, strong cross-functional collaboration, and the