Senior Avionics Systems Engineer – Lunar Core

Blue Origin Personnel, LLC; Washington; On-site; USD 131,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Parental leave

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Education Support Program

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an Avionics Systems Engineer III within the Lunar Core Components team. You will develop and manage mechanisms avionics, decompose requirements, and mentor early-career engineers while collaborating across IPTs to ensure traceable, validated designs.

You will apply experience with 3D Creo, PCB layouts, and SE tools to deliver safe, reliable flight systems for lunar missions and support major reviews with clear technical communication.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in electrical, mechanical, or aerospace engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of avionics systems design experience.
• Significant aerospace industry experience preferred.
• Strong grasp of signal integrity, power distribution, embedded systems, and sensors.
• Experience translating requirements into software logic and state machines for embedded flight software.
• Create and modify 3D Creo models of avionics components and assemblies.
• PCB schematic design and layout for avionics per aerospace standards.
• Hands-on avionics hardware testing with scopes, analyzers, and environmental test equipment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage Mechanisms Avionics specifications and requirements.
• Develop interfaces, ICDs, and models with adjacent IPTs.
• Decompose system requirements into lower levels.
• Mentor early-career Mechanisms & Avionics Systems Engineers.
• Standardize Mechanisms Systems Engineering approaches.
• Own verification and validation of Mechanisms Avionics requirements with test engineers.
• Perform traceability from requirements to verification activities.
• Develop FDIR schemes for complex electromechanical systems.
• Lead trade studies across Avionics & Mechanisms IPTs.
• Serve as Mechanism Avionics point-of-contact for other IPTs.
• Utilize Jama, Windchill and Cameo for SE work.
• Support and present at gated design and readiness reviews.

Skills

Signal integrity

Power distribution

Embedded systems

Feedback control logic

Embedded flight software

Test & verification methods

System architecture decomposition

Systems engineering tools

Troubleshooting avionics hardware

Packaging & interfaces

Jama (requirements mgmt)

Education

B.S. in electrical engineering

B.S. in mechanical engineering

B.S. in aerospace engineering

Tools

Jama

Windchill

Cameo

Creo

PCB design tools

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an Avionics Systems Engineer III within the Lunar Core Components team. You will develop and manage mechanisms avionics, decompose requirements, and mentor early-career engineers while collaborating across IPTs to ensure traceable, validated designs.

You will apply experience with 3D Creo, PCB layouts, and SE tools to deliver safe, reliable flight systems for lunar missions and support major reviews with clear technical communication.