Senior Motor Control Avionics Engineer for Space Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin in the Seattle area is seeking a Principal Motor Control Avionics Engineer to own the baseline for embedded motor controllers used across Lunar Permanence tasks. You will lead architecture, verification, and interfaces for high-reliability systems in spaceflight environments.

Responsibilities span hardware and firmware, lab bring-up, fault-tolerant control, and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver reusable controller solutions for gimbals, actuators, and deployable

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, or another relevant technical field.
• 12+ years of experience developing and delivering motor control or motor drive systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible 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 controller product architectures for application across multiple mechanisms, vehicles, and mission use cases.
• Partner with vehicle and subsystem teams to understand mission and mechanism needs, including performance, environmental, fault tolerance, operability, safety, and integration requirements.
• Develop controller solutions spanning embedded processing, sensing, power electronics, interfaces, and firmware for motor technologies including BLDC and stepper motors.
• Work directly with controller hardware in the lab, supporting bench bring-up, checkout, integration, troubleshooting, and failure investigation.
• Debug issues that span hardware and software boundaries using standard lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, DAQ systems, and HIL/bench test setups.
• Define and manage interfaces between motor controllers and motors, resolvers/encoders/sensors, vehicle power, avionics networks, and higher-level system control functions.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Team collaboration

Education

B.S. in electrical engineering or related field

Tools

Lab equipment (test & measurement)

Job description

Blue Origin in the Seattle area is seeking a Principal Motor Control Avionics Engineer to own the baseline for embedded motor controllers used across Lunar Permanence tasks. You will lead architecture, verification, and interfaces for high-reliability systems in spaceflight environments.

Responsibilities span hardware and firmware, lab bring-up, fault-tolerant control, and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver reusable controller solutions for gimbals, actuators, and deployable