Senior Satellite Power Electronics Engineer (RF Payloads)

InvestedintheMission; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Stock options for regular employees

Paid time off and holidays

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks an experienced Electrical Power Engineer to join the TeraWave team. You will architect, design, analyze, and verify electrical power subsystems for satellite payloads, delivering flight-qualified power electronics hardware that meets strict performance and environmental requirements.

You will collaborate with mechanical, thermal, systems, optics, and RF teams, lead design reviews, and drive verification analyses from concept through qualification and production.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in electrical power electronics design.
• Demonstrated experience designing isolated DC-DC power converters at the 1 kW / 120 VDC level or higher.
• Demonstrated experience designing power electronics for satellite or space hardware applications.
• Proficiency in performing and documenting the full suite of required power electronics analyses, including WCA, derating, stability, power dissipation, transient response, reliability, DFMEA, DFT, DFM, and EMI/C.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and qualification of isolated DC-DC power conversion systems at power levels up to 1 kW operating in the 120 VDC range.
• Design and characterize sub-1V, high-current point-of-load (POL) power conversion circuits.
• Develop and maintain power system architectures including filtering, sequencing, fault protection, and distribution networks.
• Execute full design verification analyses such as WCA, derating, stability, power dissipation, transient response, reliability, DFMEA, DFT, DFM, EMI/EMC.
• Support PCB layout reviews and ensure proper power plane management and thermal relief strategies.
• Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, systems, optics, and RF teams to integrate power electronics hardware.
• Develop and support hardware bring-up, characterization, qualification and production test plans.
• Lead design reviews and present analyses to peers and external stakeholders.
• Maintain compliance with Blue Origin engineering standards and space industry standards.

Skills

Power electronics design

DC-DC converters

WCA / derating / stability analyses

Control loops / DFMEA / DFT / DFM

EMI/EMC analysis

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (preferred)

Tools

LTspice

SIMetrix

Cadence Allegro

Altium Designer

Job description

Blue Origin seeks an experienced Electrical Power Engineer to join the TeraWave team. You will architect, design, analyze, and verify electrical power subsystems for satellite payloads, delivering flight-qualified power electronics hardware that meets strict performance and environmental requirements.

You will collaborate with mechanical, thermal, systems, optics, and RF teams, lead design reviews, and drive verification analyses from concept through qualification and production.