Flight Autonomy Engineer III - Lunar Verified today
About the Role
This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers and related products. You will develop and deliver on-board autonomy algorithms, control algorithms, and flight software for sustainable lunar transport infrastructure.
As part of a hardworking team of spacecraft development engineers, you will be responsible for the derivation and development of autonomy requirements, analysis, algorithms, flight software, integration, test, verification, and validation. You will use your experience in the implementation of on-board autonomy and mechanical, thermal, fluid, and gaseous control systems.
Responsibilities
- Derive and develop autonomy requirements, perform analyses and trades to validate requirements, and maintain subsystem specification and performance metrics.
- Collaborate with GN&C and other subsystems and spacecraft systems engineers to support the development of low- and high-fidelity plant models.
- Build control code in Simulink to support autocoding to target.
- Support the 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
- Minimum of a 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 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 in C/C++
- 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 up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for all regular employees (20+ hours/week)
- Up to four weeks paid time off per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Performance-based bonuses and additional benefits dependent on role type and job level
Requirements
Applicants must pass Blue's Standard Background Check. Blue Origin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.