Avionics Chief Engineer Verified today
Role Overview
As Avionics Chief Engineer in the Engines Business Unit, you will provide independent avionics and electrical systems technical oversight across programs within Blue Origin Engines. You will be accountable for avionics technical integrity by ensuring sound technical design and compliance to standards throughout the entire product life cycle from conceptual design to product fielding, with emphasis on increasing product manufacturability and reducing product life cycle cost.
You will lead teams to develop innovative and affordable solutions while demonstrating personal leadership and commitment to the highest technical standards. You will collaborate with business unit and engineering functional leadership to achieve program goals, provide guidance and mentoring to early career engineers, and help foster a strong collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and standardize design processes and tools for avionics systems including design and simulation tools, analysis methods, and verification methods
- Oversee product design to ensure avionics systems meet performance requirements and are highly manufacturable and affordable
- Collaborate with manufacturing to identify and implement methods and processes for lowering product cost and increasing production rate
- Assess and disposition technical risks with considerations to program cost and schedule
- Chair gated design reviews for avionics systems and components
- Work with product teams on practical solutions across the product lifecycle
- Provide and lead independent reviews of avionics-related failures at the program and product level and work with functional managers in resolving systemic issues
- Facilitate technical trades and advise teams on solutions
- Collaborate with leadership to define and assess technology roadmap alignment with program and product needs and industry development
- Participate in assessing and enforcing engineering process health and compliance
- Represent the company and project with key customers
- Coordinate with program Chief Engineers on avionics solutions and improvements for their respective programs
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace or equivalent
- 15 or more years of experience in development and production of avionics, safety critical electronic systems, and/or control systems
- Experience with analog, digital, software and firmware designs and development processes
- Experience with wire harness design including production considerations
- Experience with the design and application of instrumentation sensors and actuators
- Demonstrated technical knowledge of the full development, verification and certification processes for safety critical avionics and/or control systems
- Demonstrated experience in avionics manufacturing to provide production support
- Demonstrated ability to operate with cohesive and effective teams and drive decision making within those teams
- Demonstrated leadership in an aerospace product development environment
- Ability to travel and/or temporary duty in support of growing tempos of production and operations
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- 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. in an engineering-related field
- Experience in full life-cycle development of spacecraft and/or satellite avionics software and firmware development, integration, testing, and formal verification
Compensation
Base pay range for Washington applicants is $213,677.00 to $299,147.10. Other site ranges may differ.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours per week
- Paid time off: up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Potential bonuses based on role type and job level