New Glenn Avionics Systems Engineer III Verified today

About the Role

This role supports the Avionics Systems Engineering of New Glenn, a reusable single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. You will have a strong systems mindset, solve complex problems, work across teams, and learn new domains.

Your Responsibilities

• Contribute to or lead New Glenn Avionics architecture trade studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support.
• Analyze, manage, and interpret requirements at the New Glenn Avionics subsystem level and flow down requirements to lower-level component specifications.
• Generate verification and validation plans, and work with integration and test teams to ensure the New Glenn Avionics subsystem meets requirements.
• Develop and manage power and network architecture, integrating multiple Avionics subsystems while ensuring deterministic performance and budget compliance.
• Develop and manage New Glenn Avionics fault tree analyses and other reliability and safety analyses across the system lifecycle.
• Produce technical writing including procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, analysis support and description documents.
• Contribute to design reviews (PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and process definition within the New Glenn Avionics engineering team.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical, Computer Science, Aerospace, or related technical subject area
• 5 or more years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission and safety critical systems
• Understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification
• Demonstrated expertise delivering complex, safety critical, or similarly highly integrated avionics systems involving multiple subsystems and networked and IO interfaces
• Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment across disciplines
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Functional understanding of common electrical digital and analog interfaces (Serial Bus Communications, Video, Audio, Ethernet, Analog Sensors)
• Knowledge of avionics specialties: Instrumentation, RF, Ethernet networking, circuit design, safety critical software, wire harnesses, test equipment, environmental and DO-160 testing
• Demonstrated proficiency communicating and integrating across multiple engineering disciplines
• Safety analyses experience including DO 178, ARP4761, NUREG-0492, NASA AFTH (Functional Hazard Analyses, Fault Tree Analyses)
• Proficiency in Python for automation, testing, and data analysis
• Experience with software testing methodologies and best practices
• Familiarity with Linux and UNIX environments
• Experience with data analysis tools like Databricks and Tableau
• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience with Agile development practices
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, DOORS and DNG, or MATLAB and Simulink

Compensation and Employment

Base Pay Range for WA applicants: $130,706.00 to $182,987.70. Other site ranges may differ.

Employment Type: Full-time

Workplace: Greater Seattle Area, onsite

Export Control and Background Checks

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.

A Standard Background Check is required for all positions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 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)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Eligible employees may receive bonuses based on company performance and individual contributions