Avionics Test Engineer II Verified today
About the Role
As an Avionics Test Engineer II in Blue Origin's Engines business unit, you will develop plans, procedures, and equipment for testing liquid rocket engine ignition hardware. You will directly impact the history of space exploration through your detailed attention to safe and repeatable spaceflight testing.
Responsibilities
- Plan, complete, and report avionics development, qualification, and acceptance testing
- Decompose requirements into test activities
- Perform tests or ensure Technicians are able to do so
- Analyze Environmental/EMI data
- Use measurement and analysis to determine root causes for failures in avionics testing
- Identify and mitigate test execution risks
- Collaborate with internal and external labs for test execution
- Perform work comfortably in an environmental and EMI lab environment
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer, aerospace engineering, physics, or a related field
- 2+ years of hardware development, integration, and/or testing experience
- Practical and analytical understanding of analog and digital electronics
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills regarding technical subjects
- 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
- Experience planning, executing, and reporting electronics testing using RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-810, and/or MIL-STD-461
- Familiarity with sensors including linear variable differential transformers (LVDT), resistance temperature detectors (RTD), thermocouples, pressure transducers, resolvers, and accelerometers
- Proficiency with Python, MATLAB, Linux
- Proficiency configuring and troubleshooting test networks
- Experience programming, debugging, and troubleshooting devices with microcontrollers
- Experience with git for SW development
- Graduate degree in electrical, computer, aerospace engineering or a related field
Compensation
Base pay range for Washington applicants: $107,136.00 to $149,990.40 per year. 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/week
- Paid time off: up to 4 weeks per year based on scheduled hours, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Performance bonuses may apply based on role and job level