Flight Autonomy Engineer III - Lunar Verified today
The Role
As a Flight Autonomy Engineer III, you will be part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, developing Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers and related products. You will lead the development of on-board autonomy algorithms, control algorithms, and flight software that enable safe and autonomous lunar operations.
What You'll Do
- Derive and develop autonomy requirements, perform analyses and trades to validate requirements, and maintain subsystem specification and performance metrics
- Collaborate with guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) and other subsystems and spacecraft systems engineers to support development of low- and high-fidelity plant models
- Build control code in Simulink to support autocoding to target
- Support development and execution of simulations and tools required for verification of functionalities
- Use MATLAB and Simulink to analyze, unit test, and verify control and autonomy algorithms
- Support verification and testing, ensuring the subsystem complies to its requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering
- Applied industry experience and/or M.S. or Ph.D. focused on development of spacecraft autonomy and controls
- Proven experience in modeling and simulation of autonomy and controls operations
- Familiarity with flight management, guidance, control, navigation, and astrodynamics fundamentals
- Experience in MATLAB and Simulink
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 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
- M.S. or Ph.D. in aerospace engineering or related technical field
- Experience in development and implementation of real-time embedded control solutions
- Experience in full lifecycle development of GN&C and/or Autonomy on spacecraft
- Experience developing embedded control systems for complex aerospace systems
- Experience designing, evaluating, and simulating state machines
- Experience in Stateflow
- Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA
- Familiarity with DO-178, DO-160, and DO-254 or similar guidelines
Compensation
Base pay range varies by location: CA and WA applicants $130,706.00 - $182,987.70; CO applicants $119,814.00 - $167,738.55. 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 of up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours per week)
- Up to four weeks paid time off per year based on scheduled hours
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Bonuses may be eligible based on role type and job level (not guaranteed)
Requirements
Standard background check required for all positions. DBIDS background check may be required if role requires access to military installations. Blue Origin requires applicants to be U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as refugee or asylum grantee.