Senior Satellite & Payload Reliability Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Up to 15% as program needs require

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF and optical payload hardware, avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC hardware, and more. You will translate mission objectives into reliability requirements and verification evidence throughout a high-rate constellation lifecycle.

Responsibilities include development of reliability strategies, quantitative analyses, and collaboration

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering, applied mathematics/statistics, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in reliability, systems, spacecraft, payload, avionics, or mission-assurance engineering for aerospace or another high-reliability product.
• Hands-on experience with FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, critical-item management, or quantitative reliability prediction.
• Working knowledge of spacecraft bus and payload hardware such as avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC sensors and actuators, thermal-control hardware, structures and mechanisms, RF communications, or optical communications.
• Ability to derive clear, verifiable requirements and connect those requirements to analysis, test, inspection, or demonstration evidence.
• Ability to work across hardware design, manufacturing, supplier, test, quality, and operations teams and to present risk to technical and program leadership.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain the hardware reliability and maintainability approach across satellites and payload hardware.
• Derive reliability requirements from system objectives for LRUs, CCAs, EEE parts, and interfaces.
• Build reliability analyses such as FMEAs, fault trees, and single-point-failure assessments.
• Collaborate with architects to improve design robustness through derating, redundancy, and margins.
• Perform reliability predictions and sensitivity studies using data from components, tests, and heritage.
• Quantify impact of trades on reliability and fleet availability.
• Define verification plans and support testing across life-cycle stages.
• Communicate risk in decision-ready terms to leadership.

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF and optical payload hardware, avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC hardware, and more. You will translate mission objectives into reliability requirements and verification evidence throughout a high-rate constellation lifecycle.

Responsibilities include development of reliability strategies, quantitative analyses, and collaboration