Rocket Engine Electrical Design Engineer III

4 days ago

Seattle, Washington, United States Blue Origin Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Electrical Design Engineer to join our team at Blue Origin. As a key member of our design team, you will be responsible for developing and executing design avionics electronic hardware used to operate rocket engines in space.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and develop electrical systems for rocket engines, including analog instrumentation measurement circuits and actuator circuits.
  • Interpret systems engineering and quality requirements as they apply to electrical product development.
  • Develop circuits, boards, and rugged electronic hardware assemblies across the entire product life-cycle.
  • Support risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.
  • Manage design schedules of avionics subsystems.
  • Routinely present program status and issues.
  • Identify root cause failure modes using fault tree and fishbone methodologies.
Requirements
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field with 7 years of professional experience, including 5+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in guiding project teams, making critical design decisions, and mentoring junior engineers.
  • Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital circuit design, analysis, test, and debug.
  • Expert knowledge of Op-Amp circuits as applied to instrumentation measurements, including scaling, active filters, and current to voltage conversion.
  • Knowledge of signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles.
  • Highly organized teammate with excellent technical skills (written and verbal).
  • Experience with data anomaly review and system troubleshooting in a lab or test environment.
  • Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
  • Passion for Blue Origin's mission to enable millions of people to live and work in space.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Graduate degree (or higher) in related engineering or technical field.
  • Expertise designing electronics in a space radiation environment.
  • Proven expertise crafting high-reliability, safety-critical, Class 3 board assemblies.
  • Understanding of mechanical packaging of avionics in harsh environmental conditions.
  • Knowledge of EMI issues related to precision analog or high voltage design.
  • Proficiency using CAD layout tools to craft sophisticated printed circuit boards.
  • 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 and radiation-tolerant flight hardware intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments.

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