Flight Autonomy Systems Engineer

3 weeks ago


Seattle, Washington, United States Blue Origin Full time
Role Overview

At Blue Origin, we're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. As a key member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in developing the autonomy and control systems for our spacecraft.

Key Responsibilities

Derive and develop autonomy requirements, perform analyses and trades to validate requirements, and maintain subsystem specification, and performance metrics.
Collaborate with GN&C and other subsystems and spacecraft systems engineers to support the development of low- and high-fidelity plant models.
Build control code in Simulink to support autocoding to target.
Support the development, and execution of simulations and tools required for verification of functionalities.
Use Matlab and Simulink to analyze, unit test, and verify control and autonomy algorithms.
Support verification and testing, ensuring the subsystem complies to its requirements.

Requirements

Minimum of a B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering.
Applied industry experience and/or M.S. or Ph.D. focused on development of spacecraft autonomy and controls.
Experience developing embedded control systems for complex aerospace systems.
Proven experience in modeling and simulation autonomy and controls operations.
Familiarity with flight management, guidance, control, navigation, and astrodynamics fundamentals.
Experience in Matlab, Simulink, and Stateflow.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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

M.S. or PhD in aerospace engineering or related technical field.
Experience in development and implementation of real-time embedded control solutions.
Experience in full lifecycle development of GN&C and/or Autonomy on spacecraft.
Experience designing, evaluating, and simulating state machines.
Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
Familiarity with DO-178, DO-160, and DO-254 or similar guidelines.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members.

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