Senior Mechanical Engineer - Lunar Permanence, Avionics Packaging Verified today
About the role
You will support the mechanical design, analysis, test, and review of avionics packaging for lunar missions as part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers. You will work in a highly collaborative environment with electrical engineering, systems engineering, manufacturing, test, production, procurement, and quality teams.
This is a senior-level role providing leadership, technical expertise, and training to the mechanical team. You will report to the Core Avionics group and play a key role in developing lunar systems.
What you will do
- Provide leadership as a member of a cross-disciplinary team in a fast-paced design environment
- Participate in the entire design cycle of flight and mission critical avionics
- Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to define requirements and design architecture
- Work with electrical engineering to incorporate printed circuit boards and interconnect systems, including thermal and structural analyses
- Lead design trade studies
- Design avionics enclosure solutions for performance and high reliability in harsh environments
- Create mechanical interface definitions, specifications, and control documents
- Create 3D CAD models, assemblies, part and assembly drawings, and installation drawings
- Build and evaluate prototype assemblies
- Create assembly aids and test fixtures
- Plan and conduct engineering tests and data reviews
- Create and deliver presentations, proposals, and training material on technical subjects
- Review assembly instructions and support hardware builds
- Validate requirements through design, test, analysis, and inspection
- Support production and quality engineering, including dispositioning material defects
- Manage product design configuration revisions through the product lifecycle
- Mentor and train junior engineers
- Review and approve designs and documentation created by other team members
Minimum qualifications
- B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- 10+ years of recent experience designing ruggedized electronic enclosures or similar high-performance/high reliability hardware
- Skilled with static structural, modal, random vibration, and thermal analysis
- Skilled with 3D CAD modeling programs (Creo preferred)
- Skilled with FEA tools (Ansys preferred)
- Experience with Steinberg or Engelmeier solder fatigue
- Skilled with GD&T implementation and analysis (ASME Y14.5)
- Ability to be self-directed and balance several projects at one time
- History of communicating design concepts and analysis results effectively
- History of demonstrating autonomous project leadership
- History of technical expertise/authority being recognized by the larger team/organization
- Experience with environmental testing including vibration, shock, and thermal testing
- Experience performing failure analysis and establishing root cause and corrective actions
- Flexibility and openness to tackling varied assignments and learning new skills
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships
- 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
- Experience with one or more of the following packaging disciplines: avionics, power regulators and distributors, batteries, optics, sensors, motor controllers, RF radios and amplifiers, displays, controls, antennas, navigation instrumentation, radar, or LiDAR
- Experience with aerospace, launch vehicle, or spacecraft avionics systems
- Experience with recent versions of Creo, Windchill, Ansys
- Experience with fatigue analysis and fracture mechanics
- Experience with aerospace industry standard structural analysis methods (Bruhn, Marks', Shigley, Steinberg, Roark's)
- Experience with additional environmental testing including EMI/RFI, TVAC
- Experience training and mentoring junior level engineers
- Experience directing the activities of other engineers
- Hands-on, practical mechanical abilities
Compensation and location
Base pay range for Colorado applicants: $144,179.00 to $201,849.90
Base pay range for Washington applicants: $156,802.00 to $219,522.45
Other site ranges may differ.
Relocation is available. Travel expected on an as-needed basis up to 15% of the time.
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)
- Paid time off: up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Bonus eligibility dependent on role type and job level