Senior Space Electronics Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Electronics System Architect to define and develop electronics architectures for space systems and ground support equipment. You will establish robust interfaces, power distribution, and fault management to ensure mission success in space.

You will lead architecture reviews with design, FPGA, and firmware teams, perform trade studies, and collaborate with systems engineering to ensure requirements flow and verification. Travel up to 20% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or related field.
• 7+ years of electronics design, system integration, or electronics architecture.
• Experience defining or integrating multiboard electronics systems.
• Strong understanding of power distribution, timing, interfaces, and signal integrity.
• Ability to produce architecture documentation, interface control documents, and requirements.
• Experience leading technical discussions across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Hands-on hardware bringup and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and document electronics architectures for optical payloads, including power, timing, control interfaces, and system-level integration.
• Translate system requirements into electrical requirements, interface definitions, and design constraints.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to design, FPGA, and firmware teams.
• Perform trade studies for component selection, power distribution approaches, timing strategies, and communication interfaces.
• Support integration, test planning, and troubleshooting during hardware bringup and system validation.
• Collaborate with systems engineering to ensure requirements flow down, verification planning, and traceability.
• Contribute to risk assessments, design margins, and reliability considerations appropriate for space environments.

Skills

Electronics design

System integration

Electronics architecture

Power distribution

SPI

I2C

LVDS

SERDES

Documentation

Leadership

Hardware bringup

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical/computer engineering, or physics

Tools

FPGAs

Embedded processors

Model-based systems engineering

Hardware test equipment

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Electronics System Architect to define and develop electronics architectures for space systems and ground support equipment. You will establish robust interfaces, power distribution, and fault management to ensure mission success in space.

You will lead architecture reviews with design, FPGA, and firmware teams, perform trade studies, and collaborate with systems engineering to ensure requirements flow and verification. Travel up to 20% may be required.