Senior Electrical Systems Engineer: Space Communications Payloads

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 25%

Job summary

Blue Origin’s Blue National Security team seeks a Senior Electrical Systems Engineer focused on communications payload integration for spacecraft. You will provide technical direction for electrical architectures, coordinating RF, optical, power, software, and mechanical teams while mentoring junior engineers across design, development, production, and test.

Expect hands-on work spanning design through test, with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in electrical systems engineering for space or other high-reliability systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, including supplier interfaces.
• Experience mentoring or leading junior engineers.
• Demonstrated experience defining power architectures, grounding strategies, and power quality requirements.
• Experience with electrical transient system modeling and simulation (e.g., SPICE-based tools, MATLAB/Simulink).
• Understanding of harness design concepts, signal integrity and design implementations, and interface definition.
• Experience supporting integration, test, and anomaly resolution on flight and flight‑like hardware.
• Experience with requirements development, interface control documents (ICDs), and margin management.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for a multidisciplinary systems team (RF, optical comms, power, software, mechanical), including suppliers, to create, influence, and define electronics solutions and their interfaces to the spacecraft and payloads
• Define the electrical requirements needed to ensure end-to-end RF communications
• Provide direction and definition for space electronics systems and components
• Support trade studies on compatibility, applicability, cost, and technical merit of in‑house and out-of‑house electronics development efforts
• Perform electrical system modeling and simulations, inclusive of power quality assessment planning, system and component grounding definition, compatibility of interfaces between system electronics, and electrical effects of mission environment
• Define requirements and mitigations driven by the mission environment (e.g., spacecraft charging)
• Apply harness best design practices to ensure sound power quality and signal integrity at key interfaces
• Maintain end-to-end electrical compatibility, functional allocations, and margins across subsystems and payloads
• Participate hands‑on in all phases: design, development, production, and test
• Identify technical risks early in the design phase and define mitigations
• Work with the larger team to resolve electrical hardware anomalies at the component and system level, determine root cause and corrective action for both engineering development and flight hardware
• Mentor junior engineers on mission considerations and electrical subsystem concepts

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Supplier interfaces

Power architectures

Signal integrity

SPICE/MATLAB/Simulink

Requirements development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

SPICE-based tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Blue Origin’s Blue National Security team seeks a Senior Electrical Systems Engineer focused on communications payload integration for spacecraft. You will provide technical direction for electrical architectures, coordinating RF, optical, power, software, and mechanical teams while mentoring junior engineers across design, development, production, and test.

Expect hands-on work spanning design through test, with occasional travel.