Senior GN&C Hardware Engineer for Lunar Lander

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Parental leave

401(k) with company match

Education support

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an engineer to contribute to GN&C navigation hardware development for lunar missions. You will work across system-level specs to component-level requirements and support testing and verification campaigns.

The role emphasizes collaboration with vehicle systems, mechanics, mission operations, AI&T, and dynamics teams to ensure performance deliverables and safe human spaceflight.

Qualifications

• Experience with GN&C hardware such as inertial sensors, GPS receivers, cameras, star-trackers or lidars.
• Proven ability to lead integration and test activities in cleanroom environments and maintain contamination control standards.
• Experience in creating avionics requirements, procurement specs, and statements of work.

Responsibilities

• Develop navigation hardware requirements from system specs down to subsystems and components.
• Conduct hardware design studies and performance trades for navigation hardware.
• Coordinate procurement, vendor delivery, installation, verification, and certification of navigation hardware.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing and flight tests to validate system requirements.

Skills

Inertial navigation units

GPS receivers

navigation cameras

star-trackers

lidars

EO/IR sensors

integration and test

avionics requirements

RS-422

SpaceWire

IPC 3 Space Addendum

interface control drawings (ICDs)

Windchill

Jama

DOORS Next Generation

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Engineering

Tools

Windchill

Jama

DOORS Next Generation

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an engineer to contribute to GN&C navigation hardware development for lunar missions. You will work across system-level specs to component-level requirements and support testing and verification campaigns.

The role emphasizes collaboration with vehicle systems, mechanics, mission operations, AI&T, and dynamics teams to ensure performance deliverables and safe human spaceflight.