Satellite & Payloads Reliability Engineer - Mission-Critical

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Bonus up to 15%

Job summary

Blue Origin, a leader in space exploration, seeks a TeraWave Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF/optical payload hardware, avionics, and related subsystems.

You will translate mission objectives into actionable hardware reliability requirements, perform FMEAs, reliability predictions, and risk assessments, and collaborate to enhance design robustness, margin, and redundancy throughout the product

Qualifications

• BS in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering, or applied mathematics/statistics.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute the hardware reliability and maintainability approach across satellites, spacecraft bus systems, RF/optical payload hardware, and related components.
• Derive and allocate reliability, availability, and mission-life requirements from system objectives to hardware and interfaces.
• Build and maintain reliability analyses (FMEA/FMECAs, fault trees, LRUs, single-point-failure assessments) for various operations.
• Collaborate with architects to improve design robustness through redundancy, margins, and protective circuitry.
• Perform reliability predictions and sensitivity studies using data from components, tests, suppliers, and field/heritage.
• Quantify impact of trades on reliability and availability, including architecture, redundancy, and topology decisions.

Education

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

Job description

Blue Origin, a leader in space exploration, seeks a TeraWave Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF/optical payload hardware, avionics, and related subsystems.

You will translate mission objectives into actionable hardware reliability requirements, perform FMEAs, reliability predictions, and risk assessments, and collaborate to enhance design robustness, margin, and redundancy throughout the product