Senior Test Engineer, Space Systems & HIL Lead

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 111,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k) match

Stock options

PTO

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Test Engineer III for the TeraWave program to own end-to-end test campaigns on vehicle test benches, flatsat, and HIL environments. You will translate bench test methods into producible procedures and mentor junior engineers while coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure rigorous verification and smooth production handoff.

Applicants should have a strong aerospace/test engineering background, lead test campaigns, and possess excellent communication skills to brief

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of hardware test, SIT, or environmental/functional test in aerospace/defense/high-reliability electronics.
• Experience leading or owning test campaigns end-to-end: procedure development, execution, anomaly disposition, and formal test reporting.
• Proficiency operating test benches, GSE, data acquisition systems; interpret telemetry and identify off-nominal conditions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, own, and execute VTB and HIL verification procedures; drive from draft through review and release.
• Lead test campaign execution: manage readiness gates, bench configuration, telemetry monitoring, and test-rule holds.
• Disposition anomalies and author formal test reports; support root cause analysis.
• Develop and maintain lab verification procedures and engage in verification activities.
• Mentor junior engineers and interface with subsystem engineers on test objectives and criteria.

Skills

Test engineering

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Electrical/Systems Engineering

Tools

Python

LabVIEW

GSEOS

COSMOS

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Test Engineer III for the TeraWave program to own end-to-end test campaigns on vehicle test benches, flatsat, and HIL environments. You will translate bench test methods into producible procedures and mentor junior engineers while coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure rigorous verification and smooth production handoff.

Applicants should have a strong aerospace/test engineering background, lead test campaigns, and possess excellent communication skills to brief