Senior Avionics Hardware Design Engineer - New Glenn (Evergreen) Verified today

About the Role

You will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for New Glenn spaceflight systems. New Glenn is 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 was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As part of a small team of experts, you will contribute across all aspects of avionics engineering product development: architectural definition, hardware design, and verification. You will work in fast-paced environments, contributing innovative solutions while maintaining personal leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop avionics hardware boards and integrated assemblies, managing the full product life-cycle from concept and requirements definition through design, prototyping, verification (power-on, functional, acceptance, and qualification testing), and release to production.
• Design analog and digital boards that interact with avionics systems including power electronics, compute, networking, antennas, sensors, and electromechanical/electrohydraulic actuators. Perform schematic capture, layout, design review, test, verification and release.
• Support avionics architecture trade 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 process improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Direct hands-on experience developing sophisticated commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies, including 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.
• Experience with analog, power electronics, 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.
• 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, including familiarity with IPC 6xx and NASA-STD-8739.n (or similar) standards.
• Proficiency with 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 space environment exposure.

Compensation and Benefits

Base pay range for WA applicants: $156,802.00 - $219,522.45 (other site ranges may differ).

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%, and an Education Support Program. Stock options available for regular employees working at least 20 hours/week. Paid Time Off: up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays. Bonuses may be available based on role type and job level.

Employment Requirements

Applicants 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.

Blue's Standard Background Check is required for all positions. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.