Senior Navigation Hardware Engineer – Advanced Concepts Verified today
Senior Navigation Hardware Engineer - Advanced Concepts
Blue Origin's Enterprise Engineering Flight Systems group seeks an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to design and develop navigation sensors and systems for New Glenn, Lunar Transportation, In Space Systems, and Advanced Concepts Engineering.
You will lead the electrical engineering of navigation sensors used across all Blue Origin spaceflight vehicles, driving safe, low-cost, and reliable space exploration systems.
What you will do
- Design, integrate, test, and deploy sensors for spaceflight navigation, including gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometers, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), wireless radios, RF, and star trackers
- Lead development of simple and reliable hardware meeting position, navigation, and timing (PNT) and redundancy requirements
- Drive regulatory and certification activities and electrical/mechanical failure analysis
- Lead acceptance and qualification testing for space-worthy sensors and EEE components (EMI, radiation, etc.), including test execution, data collection and analysis
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in electronic design, preferably in aerospace or defense
- Proficiency in schematic design using industry-standard tools (Altium, OrCAD, or equivalent)
- Proven expertise in complex circuit design, including component selection, architecture, circuit schematics, prototyping, and design for industrial manufacturing
- Working knowledge of PCB design, assembly processes, and PCB layout software
- Familiarity with low-noise analog and digital test equipment
- Some software experience in C, C++, Python
- Self-starting mindset and ability to thrive in fast-paced new product development environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desired qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Full product lifecycle gyroscope/accelerometer experience
- Demonstrated experience in development, prototyping, testing, and calibration of accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and inertial measurement units
- Demonstrated experience with design of GPS/GNSS software-defined-radio and/or RF communication systems
- Strong familiarity with hardware testing and ability to operate test equipment such as vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope, power meters, and thermal chamber
- Experience interfacing with high-performance analog sensors (accelerometers, gyros)
Compensation
CO applicants: $144,179.00 - $201,849.90
WA applicants: $156,802.00 - $219,522.45
Other site ranges may differ.
Requirements
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Background check required for all positions. Additional checks may apply based on role requirements.
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%
- Stock options for all regular employees (20+ hours/week)
- Up to 4 weeks paid time off annually and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Education Support Program
- Performance-based bonuses (amounts and eligibility not guaranteed)