Avionics Hardware Engineer III - New Glenn Rocket Verified today

About the Role

This position supports 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 New Glenn Avionics team is multidisciplinary, covering power, GNC, network and communications, software, embedded systems, sensors, cabling, testing, and integration.

You will focus on developing, integrating, and testing data acquisition systems for our launch vehicles. This is an active participant role in a rapid development environment that requires a bias for action while delivering quality results. The decisions you make will contribute to Blue Origin's long-term success in human spaceflight.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop system requirements for data acquisition systems utilized for vehicle health monitoring and performance analysis
• Create and review schematics based on system requirements, ensuring accuracy and adherence to design specifications
• Review detailed PCB designs and layouts. Ensure designs meet all required aerospace and industry standards, including signal integrity, thermal considerations, and mechanical constraints
• Conduct benchmarking and performance analysis to guide the design and optimization through LRU NPI process
• Collaborate with embedded software and network OS teams during system integration
• Design robust systems capable of operating in extreme environments that meet environmental testing requirements applicable to SMC-S-016
• Collaborate with design teams to integrate DFM and DFA (Design for Assembly) principles early in the lifecycle to reduce labor-intensive manual processes
• Evaluate and implement AI-enabled inspection and automation to enhance capacity and reduce production bottlenecks with BIT (Built-In-Test) solutions
• Support the full development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, deployment, and documentation
• Lead the LRU design validation of high-performance DAQ systems by verifying sensor excitation stability, anti-aliasing filter integrity, and accuracy requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field, with a strong track record in electronics and computing
• 5+ years of experience in avionics systems design. Significant portion of this experience in the aerospace industry preferred
• Strong understanding of signal conditioning circuits, designing the analog front-end (AFE) that prepares raw sensor data such as temperature, pressure, vibration, and acceleration for accurate digitization by an ADC and subsequent processing by an FPGA
• Familiar with excitation PCB schemes (Wheatstone bridges or IEPE constant-current sources)
• Experience with mixed-signal isolation design to establish robust isolation strategies to prevent digital noise from FPGAs and processors from corrupting analog sensor data
• Understanding of sampling design and potential impacts to system (aliasing, under/over sampling, and resolution)
• Familiarity with event correlation and time synchronization schemes
• Hands-on experience with hardware validation and debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and SMUs
• Hands-on experience with performing environmental test and data reviews derived from MIL-STD and SMC-S-016
• Skilled in deriving and analyzing system requirements and decomposing complex problems into clear, actionable steps for hardware implementation and PCB development
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and articulate technical concepts clearly

Compensation and Benefits

Base Pay Range for WA applicants: $130,706.00 - $182,987.70. Other site ranges may differ.

Benefits include: 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. Stock options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week). Up to four weeks paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Employment Requirements

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Blue's Standard Background Check is required for all positions.