Senior Avionics Systems Engineer – Lunar Mechanisms

Blue Origin; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & holidays

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an Avionics Systems Engineer III within the Lunar Core Components team in Huntsville to lead and perform SE tasks for integrating electro-mechanical systems into a complete Mechanism product. You will collaborate with avionics, mechanisms design teams and other IPTs to ensure successful lunar lander development.

You will guide a team of mechanisms engineers, apply rigorous verification, and contribute to the safety-critical, high-precision environment of spaceflight

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in electrical, mechanical, or aerospace engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in avionics systems design.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, power distribution, embedded systems, feedback controlled logics, communications, actuators, sensors, cabling and embedded system interfaces.
• Experience translating system/functional requirements into software logic and state machine architectures, including defining operational states, transitions, and fault detection/response behavior for embedded flight software.
• Create and modify 3D models in Creo of mechanical Avionics components, assemblies, and installations.
• Experience with PCB schematic design and layout for avionics components, following aerospace standards.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and troubleshooting avionics hardware with equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, and environmental test equipment.
• Hands-on experience designing, building and testing aerospace mechanism hardware.
• Experience developing and executing Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test setups for embedded software.
• Skill in analyzing system requirements and decomposing complex problems into clear, actionable steps for hardware implementation.

Responsibilities

• Develop & manage Mechanisms Avionics specifications and requirements (at subsystem and component-levels).
• Develop & manage Mechanisms Avionics interfaces, ICDs and models (in collaboration with adjacent IPTs).
• Decompose requirements from system and subsystem-levels into lower-level requirements.
• Mentor early-career Mechanisms & Avionics Systems Engineers on the Lunar Program.
• Standardize Mechanisms Systems Engineering approaches.
• Own the verification and validation of Mechanisms Avionics requirements, in collaboration with the Mechanisms test engineers.
• Perform traceability analysis of requirements to higher levels, and to verification activities.
• Develop Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) schemes for complex safety-critical electromechanical systems.
• Lead trade studies across the Avionics & Mechanisms IPTs.
• Serve as the Mechanism Avionics point-of-contact for other IPTs.
• Utilize Systems Engineering tools such as Jama, Windchill and Cameo.
• Support and present at major gated reviews design reviews, readiness reviews, etc.

Skills

Signal integrity

Power distribution

Embedded systems

Feedback control logic

Communications

Actuators

Sensors

Cabling

Embedded interfaces

5 years avionics experience

Education

B.S. in electrical/mechanical/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 in Huntsville to lead and perform SE tasks for integrating electro-mechanical systems into a complete Mechanism product. You will collaborate with avionics, mechanisms design teams and other IPTs to ensure successful lunar lander development.

You will guide a team of mechanisms engineers, apply rigorous verification, and contribute to the safety-critical, high-precision environment of spaceflight