Electrical Design Engineer Sr Verified today
About This Role
This is a design leadership position within Blue Origin Engines, where you will develop and execute avionics electronic hardware design while directing a small team. You will work on safety-critical systems that power the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.
What You Will Do
- Interpret systems engineering and quality requirements as they apply to electrical product development
- Develop circuits, boards, and rugged electronic hardware assemblies across the entire product lifecycle, including concept, requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification testing, and release to production
- Manage design schedules and direct the activities of a small team
- Support risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies
- Identify root cause failure modes using fault tree and fishbone methodologies
- Routinely present program status and issues
Required Qualifications
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 10 years of professional experience, with 8+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development
- Direct hands-on experience with analog and digital circuit design, analysis, test, and debug
- Knowledge of signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles
- Experience with data anomaly review and system troubleshooting in a lab or test environment
- Excellent technical skills, both written and verbal
Desired Qualifications
- Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field
- Expertise designing electronics in a space radiation environment
- Proven expertise crafting high-reliability, safety-critical Class 3 board assemblies
- Understanding of mechanical packaging of avionics in harsh environmental conditions
- Power conversion electronics as applied to controlling BLDC motors
- Knowledge of electric motor design and construction
- Knowledge of EMI issues related to high voltage design
- Proficiency using CAD layout tools to craft sophisticated printed circuit boards, and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors
- Exposure to designing safety or critically important aerospace flight hardware aligned with DO-254
- Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant flight hardware intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments
Compensation and Benefits
Compensation for Washington applicants: $156,802.00 to $219,522.45 annually. 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 company match of up to 5%, education support program, stock options for regular employees, and up to four weeks paid time off plus 14 company-paid holidays annually.
Employment Requirements
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Standard background check required for all positions.