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Electrical Engineering Lead Verified today

Blue Origin · Longmont, CO · Electronics · first seen 2026-09-03
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About the Role

You will support the development, design, test, and manufacturing of Honeybee Robotics' electronic motion control products. Starting with proposal support and labour estimates, you will shepherd multi-board designs through development, eventually transitioning flight-ready products to manufacturing and test engineering teams.

You will take charge of electronic design in project teams, help develop processes, lead design reviews, and collaborate with customers. This includes informal team task management, reviewing the work of other team members, and documenting work appropriately to completion.

Responsibilities

  • Electronic architecture development of motor controllers
  • Schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium
  • Technical team leadership

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering from an accredited institution
  • 10+ years of work experience in electronic product design
  • Extensive embedded system design experience including:
    • Digital, analog, and mixed signal design
    • Board-level communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, CAN)
    • Controlled impedance for high-speed channel design (SpaceWire, 10GbE, SerDes)
    • Linear and switch mode DC/DC power conversion
    • Documentation (test procedures, reports, interface control documents, ECOs)
  • Familiarity with design analysis and simulation (WCA/WCCA, reliability, radiation, Spice)
  • Familiarity with cable and wire harness design
  • Signal and power integrity (SI/PI)
  • Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
  • Extensive prototype development, debug, and test in a lab environment
  • Proven experience launching products in regulated environments
  • Ability to earn trust and maintain positive professional relationships

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with motion control and electromechanical systems for space environments
  • Successful history leading technical teams and mentoring junior engineers
  • Experience with EEE-INST-002 and radiation-hardness/mitigation
  • Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
  • Generation of technical proposal content and labour/cost estimation
  • Altium Designer
  • DSP and microcontroller firmware development
  • FPGA design (Verilog and VHDL)
  • System and functional requirements generation

Compensation and Benefits

Base pay range for Colorado applicants: $144,179.00 to $201,849.90

Benefits include 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, stock options for regular employees, and up to four weeks paid time off per year plus up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Additional Information

  • Relocation provided
  • Occasional travel expected
  • Interviews will include a technical assessment
  • Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee/asylee
  • Background check required