PCB Electrical Engineer III Verified today

About the Role

You will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for New Glenn, a single-configuration heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

Working in a small, hard-working team of experts, you will contribute across all aspects of avionics engineering product development: architectural definition, hardware and software development, design and verification. You will work in fast-paced and often uncertain environments, delivering innovative solutions with personal leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop avionics hardware boards and integrated assemblies with solid understanding of the entire product lifecycle: concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power-on, functional/acceptance/qualification testing) and release to production.
• Develop analog and digital boards that interact with avionics systems including sensors and electromechanical/electrohydraulic actuators: analysis, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification and release.
• Support avionics architecture trades studies, analyses, performance characterization, specification, device selection, and controller roadmap direction.
• Support risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.
• Participate in program-level technology development, mission assurance, safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 7+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Direct hands-on experience developing sophisticated commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies (designing custom cards or integrating COTS hardware).
• Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and board layout.
• Exposure to analog and digital filters, signal conditioning and signal processing using discrete components.
• Familiarity with sophisticated computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to supervise sensors and control actuators including design, development and verification.
• Highly organized with excellent technical communication skills, written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field with 10+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Proven expertise designing high-reliability, safety-critical Class 2/3 board assemblies with familiarity with IPC 6xx and NASA-STD-8739.n (or similar) standards.
• Proficiency using Altium/Cadence OrCAD/Allegro (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors.
• Exposure to designing safety or critically important aerospace flight hardware aligned with DO-254.
• Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant, radiation-hardened flight hardware for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments.

Compensation

Base pay range for Washington applicants: $130,706.00 - $182,987.70. 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/week).
• Paid time off: up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Bonuses may be available based on role type and job level, at company discretion.

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.

A standard background check is required for all positions.