Senior Satellite Reliability Engineer for Payloads

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Parental leave

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

Education Support

Stock Options

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in the United States 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, structures, and harnesses.

You will develop reliability strategies, perform FMEA/FMECA, allocate requirements, create reliability models, and collaborate with design, manufacturing, and QA teams to ensure mission success and robust

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical, aerospace, systems, reliability, statistics or related field.
• 7+ years in reliability, systems, spacecraft, payload, avionics or mission-assurance engineering.
• Hands-on with FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, critical-item mgmt.
• Working knowledge of spacecraft bus and payload hardware such as avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC.
• Ability to derive verifiable requirements linked to analysis, test, or demonstration evidence.
• Ability to collaborate across design, manufacturing, supplier, test, quality and operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the TeraWave reliability approach across satellites and payload hardware.
• Derive and allocate reliability requirements from system objectives for hardware interfaces.
• Create reliability diagrams, FMEAs, fault trees, and single-point-failure analyses.
• Improve design robustness via derating, redundancy, protection, margins.
• Perform reliability predictions and state model assumptions and uncertainties.
• Quantify impact of trades on reliability and availability.
• Integrate radiation, thermal, mechanical factors into reliability analyses.
• Define demonstration, growth, and verification plans; support testing.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Systems engineering

Cross-functional communication

Education

B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering, applied mathematics/statistics

Tools

DOORS

Next Generation requirements systems

Jira

Windchill/PLM

Python

MATLAB

Statistical analysis software

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in the United States 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, structures, and harnesses.

You will develop reliability strategies, perform FMEA/FMECA, allocate requirements, create reliability models, and collaborate with design, manufacturing, and QA teams to ensure mission success and robust