Electrical Engineer II – New Glenn Avionics Verified today

About the Role

This role supports New Glenn, a single-configuration heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle designed to carry people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar space, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable and human-capable.

You will own end-to-end product development as a responsible engineer of LRUs (Line Replaceable Units). These LRUs are critical components of New Glenn that control significant functions including hydraulics, thrust vector control, fins, ordnance, sensors, valves, and more. You will interface with design, test, systems, integration, software, and control engineering disciplines throughout the entire product lifecycle from conception to flight-ready hardware.

Responsibilities

• Own the development and integration of LRU assemblies for embedded controllers that control various subsystems on the New Glenn rocket, including electromechanical and electrohydraulic actuators, sensors, and related systems.
• Own qualification testing at the integrated assembly level in extreme environments of radiation, temperature, vibration, and EMI/EMC per MIL-STD-461 and DO-160 standards.
• Support stakeholders with requirement definition and verification activities.
• Apply technical expertise to problem solving throughout the product lifecycle, including concept, definition, design, verification (power-on, functional, acceptance, and qualification testing), and release to production.
• Support avionics embedded controller architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization, specification, device selection, and controller roadmap direction.
• Collaborate with avionics subsystems to identify current technology capabilities, risks, opportunities, and challenges, and develop solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum B.S. in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field with 3 or more years of developing and testing complex hardware equipment over the entire product lifecycle.
• Direct hands-on experience in developing complex electronic assemblies with expertise in systems integration and qualification testing.
• Passion for hands-on problem solving and avionics integration and test.
• Ability to work independently on rapid development programs.
• Familiarity with ethernet, SPI protocols, complex computational devices to monitor sensors and drive actuators, and analog/digital filters including design, development, and verification.
• Highly organized, safety and quality conscious, with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field.
• Experience developing and testing complex electronic systems combining hardware, firmware, and software.
• Experience developing and testing real-time embedded systems with a focus on modular and extensible architectures.
• Experience testing hardware to MIL-STD-461, DO-160, or similar environmental standards.
• Experience developing and testing safety and mission-critical systems (automotive, aerospace, medical, etc.) aligned with DO-254 or similar standards.
• Proficiency with scripting and programming tools: Python, Linux/Windows shell scripting, assembly language, C, C++, MATLAB, Simulink, SPICE, or similar.
• Experience using Altium, Cadence OrCAD, Allegro, or similar tools to design complex aerospace boards.

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 per week.
• Paid time off: up to four weeks per year based on scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Bonuses based on role type and job level (not guaranteed; subject to change).

Employment Requirements

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin 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.

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