Senior Embedded Motor Controls Lead Engineer

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

Disability Insurance

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock options

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Blue Origin in Seattle seeks a Senior Motor Controls Lead Engineer on the Core Avionics team to own the technical baseline for embedded motor controllers used across lunar vehicles and mechanisms. This hands‑on role covers requirements, architecture, verification, and lab bring‑up.

You will work with hardware in the lab, debugging across electronics, firmware, sensors, and actuators, and drive fault‑tolerant control strategies while coordinating with cross‑functional teams to ensure timely

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, or another relevant technical field.
• Significant experience developing and delivering motor control or motor drive systems for stepper, BLDC, or similar electromechanical actuator applications.
• Experience with embedded control electronics in safety‑critical environments.
• Experience owning or leading a technical baseline, including requirements, interfaces, design trades, verification planning, and configuration‑controlled product documentation.
• Hands‑on experience with control hardware in the lab, including bring‑up, integration, test, troubleshooting, and testing of embedded electromechanical systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead controls engineer for a family of embedded motor controllers, owning the technical baseline across requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, and lifecycle documentation.
• Define and maintain reusable motor control architectures for application across multiple mechanisms, vehicles, and mission use cases.
• Work directly with controller hardware in the lab, supporting bench bring‑up, checkout, integration, troubleshooting, and failure investigation.
• Define and manage interfaces between motor controllers and motors, resolvers/encoders/sensors, vehicle power, avionics networks, and higher‑level system control functions.
• Plan and execute verification efforts, including test strategy, procedure development, hardware bring‑up, integration support, environmental test support, and closure of qualification evidence.
• Review hardware designs, schematics, layouts, component selections, and test results in collaboration with electrical design engineers.

Skills

Motor control

Embedded electronics

Technical leadership

Lab bring-up

Fault-tolerant design

Controls architecture

Verbal communication

Education

B.S. in EE

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Jama

Oscilloscope

DAQ systems

Job description

Blue Origin in Seattle seeks a Senior Motor Controls Lead Engineer on the Core Avionics team to own the technical baseline for embedded motor controllers used across lunar vehicles and mechanisms. This hands‑on role covers requirements, architecture, verification, and lab bring‑up.

You will work with hardware in the lab, debugging across electronics, firmware, sensors, and actuators, and drive fault‑tolerant control strategies while coordinating with cross‑functional teams to ensure timely