Senior Avionics Systems Engineer for Reusable Launch Vehicles

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking an experienced Avionics Systems Engineer to support the New Glenn program. You will lead architecture trades, manage requirements flow-down, and develop verification plans across multiple subsystems to ensure deterministic performance.

You will analyze safety-critical architectures, contribute to design reviews, and mentor the team while collaborating across functions in a fast-paced environment. Seattle-based role with strong avionics domain focus.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical, Computer Science, Aerospace, or related technical subject area.
• 5+ years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems.
• Understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex, safety-critical, or highly integrated avionics systems with multiple subsystems and networked IO interfaces.
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to or lead New Glenn Avionics architecture trade studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support.
• Analyze, manage, and interpret requirements at the New Glenn Avionics subsystem level and flow down requirements to lower-level component specifications.
• Generate verification and validation plans, and work with integration and test teams to ensure the New Glenn Avionics subsystem meets requirements.
• Develop and manage power/network architecture, integrating multiple Avionics subsystems while ensuring deterministic performance and budget compliance.
• Develop and manage New Glenn Avionics fault tree analyses and other reliability/safety analyses across the system lifecycle.
• Produce technical writing (procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, analysis support and description documents).
• Contribute to design reviews (e.g. PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and process definition within the New Glenn Avionics engineering team.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements flow-down

Cross-functional collaboration

Python

Linux/UNIX

Safety-critical

Verification planning

Education

B.S. in Electrical, Computer Science, Aerospace, or related technical subject area

Tools

Git

Databricks

Tableau

JIRA

Confluence

DOORS/DNG

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking an experienced Avionics Systems Engineer to support the New Glenn program. You will lead architecture trades, manage requirements flow-down, and develop verification plans across multiple subsystems to ensure deterministic performance.

You will analyze safety-critical architectures, contribute to design reviews, and mentor the team while collaborating across functions in a fast-paced environment. Seattle-based role with strong avionics domain focus.