Sr. PCB Design Engineer - New Glenn

Blue Origin; Washington; On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an avionics hardware engineer to develop boards and assemblies for New Glenn. You will handle hardware design from concept through production release, with emphasis on analog and digital board interaction with sensors and actuators.

You will work in a fast-paced environment, performing design, verification, and risk analyses while contributing to mission safety and reliability in spaceflight programs.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 7+ years of electronics hardware experience.
• Hands-on experience developing aerospace electronic assemblies or custom cards.
• Experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal analysis, design, test, and layout.
• Exposure to analog and digital filters and signal conditioning with discrete components.
• Ability to supervise sensors and actuators using discrete components in design, development and verification.
• Excellent technical communication skills, written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Develop avionics hardware and manage full life-cycle from concept to release to production.
• Develop analog and digital boards interfacing with sensors and actuators including testing and verification.
• Support architecture trades, performance characterization, device selection and roadmap direction.
• Support risk analyses (FMECA), DFx, root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.
• Participate in program technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives.

Skills

Electronics hardware

Analog/digital design

Board layout

Signal integrity

Testing & verification

COTS hardware

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Graduate degree in related field

Tools

Altium

Cadence OrCAD

Allegro

Job description

Application close date:

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As part of a small, hard-working and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of avionics engineering product development; architectural definition and hardware and software development (design and verification). You should be comfortable working in fast-paced and often uncertain environments, contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating personal leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Develop avionics hardware (boards and integrated assemblies). Have a solid understanding of the entire product life-cycle, including concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power-on, functional / acceptance / qualification testing) and release to production.


• Develop analog and digital boards that interact with avionics systems (including sensors and electromechanical/electrohydraulic actuators); including analysis, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification and release.


• Support avionics architecture trades studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and controller roadmap direction.


• Support risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.


• Participate in program level technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 7+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development


• Direct hands-on experience developing sophisticated commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies (designing custom cards or integrating COTS hardware).


• Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and board layout.


• Exposure to analog and digital filters, signal conditioning and signal processing using discrete components.


• Familiarity with use of sophisticated computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to supervise sensors and control actuators; including design, development and verification.


• Highly organized standout colleague with excellent technical communication skills (written and verbal)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field with 10+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development


• Proven expertise designing high-reliability, safety-critical, Class 2/3 board assemblies; including familiarity with IPC 6xx and NASA-STD-8739.n (or similar) standards.


• Proficiency using Altium/Cadence OrCAD / Allegro (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards; and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors.


• Exposure to designing safety or critically important aerospace flight hardware aligned with DO-254.


• Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant, radiation-hardened flight hardware intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments

Base Pay Range for:

WA applicants is $156,802.00 - $219,522.45

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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