Senior Space Avionics Circuit Design Engineer

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 156,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Stock options

Parental leave

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in the United States seeks a senior avionics engineer to lead end-to-end development of space-rated components. You will drive requirements, design, analysis, tests, and reviews for ruggedized hardware within a cross-disciplinary team, focusing on reliability and mission success.

Joining the Spacecraft Bus Avionics team, you’ll collaborate with customers, define architectures, and ensure flight hardware meets stringent space environments, with strong emphasis on digital design

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 7+ years hands-on ruggedized hardware design.
• End-to-end development of space-rated components from requirements to production release.
• Experience designing hardware for radiation environments and space EEE parts.
• Experience integrating complex optoelectronic and electromechanical flight hardware components.
• Strong digital design experience including FPGAs, CMOS sensors, and DDR memory.
• Hands-on PCB design using Altium Designer with impedance-controlled nets and EMI/EMC mitigation.
• U.S. citizen or eligible to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product development for a space-rated component.
• Provide leadership as a member of a cross disciplinary team in a fast-paced design environment.
• Participate in the entire design cycle of flight and mission critical avionics.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to define requirements and design architecture.
• Collaborate with the electrical engineering team to incorporate PCB interconnect, signal integrity, and power integrity analyses.
• Lead design trade studies and ensure high reliability in harsh environments.
• Create mechanical interface definitions, specifications, and control documents.
• Plan and conduct engineering tests and data reviews.
• Create and deliver presentations, proposals, and training material on technical subjects.
• Review assembly instructions and support hardware builds.
• Validate requirements through design, test, analysis, and inspection.
• Support Production and Quality Engineering as needed, including dispositioning defects.
• Manage revisions of product design configurations through lifecycle.
• Mentor and train junior engineers.
• Review and approve designs and documentation created by other team members.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Space hardware design

Radiation-hardened design

FPGA design

Embedded systems

Schematic design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in the United States seeks a senior avionics engineer to lead end-to-end development of space-rated components. You will drive requirements, design, analysis, tests, and reviews for ruggedized hardware within a cross-disciplinary team, focusing on reliability and mission success.

Joining the Spacecraft Bus Avionics team, you’ll collaborate with customers, define architectures, and ensure flight hardware meets stringent space environments, with strong emphasis on digital design