Avionics Systems Engineer

1w1 week ago

Blue Origin

Washington, US · Full-time · $107,136 – $149,990

About this role

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 carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. The ideal candidate has a strong systems mindset and enjoys solving complex problems. A deep passion for Blue Origin's mission is essential.

Work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment across disciplines with integration and test teams. Analyze and manage requirements at the avionics subsystem level while ensuring deterministic performance. Provide technical mentorship and process definition within the New Glenn Avionics engineering team.

Contribute to avionics architecture trade studies, verification planning, and design reviews like PDR and CDR. Develop power/network architecture and fault tree analyses across the system lifecycle. Gain exposure to full lifecycle of mission-critical avionics systems.

Requirements

B.S. in Electrical, Computer Science, Aerospace, or related technical subject area
5+ years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations
Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems
An understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification
Demonstrated expertise delivering complex, safety critical, or similarly highly integrated avionics systems involving multiple subsystems and networked and IO interfaces
Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions
Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment across disciplines
Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills

Responsibilities

Contribute to or lead New Glenn Avionics architecture trade studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support
Analyze, manage, and interpret requirements at the New Glenn Avionics subsystem level and flow down requirements to lower-level component specifications
Generate verification and validation plans, and work with integration and test teams to ensure the New Glenn Avionics subsystem meets requirements
Develop and manage power/network architecture, integrating multiple Avionics subsystems while ensuring deterministic performance and budget compliance
Develop and manage New Glenn Avionics fault tree analyses and other reliability/safety analyses across the system lifecycle
Produce technical writing including procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, analysis support and description documents
Contribute to design reviews such as PDR, CDR and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards
Provide technical mentorship and process definition within the New Glenn Avionics engineering team