Senior Motor Control Avionics Engineer – Spacecraft

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 256,469; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options for regular employees

Paid time off

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Motor Control Avionics Engineer within the Lunar Permanence team. You will own the technical baseline for a family of embedded motor controllers used across gimbals, valves, pumps, and deployable mechanisms, ensuring high reliability in demanding space environments.

Lead and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams through the full product lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, verification planning, and production transition.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field (electrical, aerospace, mechanical, computer engineering)
• Significant experience with motor control or motor drive systems (stepper/BLDC)
• Experience with embedded control electronics in high-reliability environments
• Experience owning a technical baseline including requirements and verification planning
• Hands-on hardware lab experience with bring-up, integration, and verification
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and communicate effectively

Responsibilities

• Own the technical baseline for embedded motor controllers and lifecycles
• Define reusable motor controller architectures for multiple mechanisms/vehicles
• Collaborate with vehicle and subsystem teams to define performance and safety requirements
• Develop controller solutions spanning embedded processing, sensing, power electronics, firmware
• Work in the lab on bench bring-up, integration, and fault investigation
• Debug across hardware and software boundaries using scopes, logic analyzers, and test setups
• Manage interfaces between motor controllers, motors, sensors, and avionics networks
• Guide cross-functional teams through concept to production transition
• Lead design trade-offs for performance, redundancy, and environmental robustness
• Drive fault-tolerant control strategies and health telemetry
• Plan and execute verification and environmental test campaigns
• Review hardware designs and test results with electrical design engineers
• Coordinate with systems, firmware, mechanical, safety, and test teams
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders

Skills

Motor control

Embedded electronics

Lab bring-up

Hardware debugging

Fault-tolerant design

Leadership

Education

B.S. in electrical/aerospace/mechanical/computer engineering

M.S. or Ph.D. in related field

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Motor Control Avionics Engineer within the Lunar Permanence team. You will own the technical baseline for a family of embedded motor controllers used across gimbals, valves, pumps, and deployable mechanisms, ensuring high reliability in demanding space environments.

Lead and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams through the full product lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, verification planning, and production transition.