Sr. Electrical Engineer - Navigation Verified today
About this role
Blue Origin's Enterprise Engineering Flight Systems group seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to design and develop navigation 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.
What you will do
- Design, integrate, test, and deploy sensors for spaceflight navigation, such as 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 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 approach in fast-paced new product development environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or 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 GPS/GNSS software-defined-radio and/or RF communication systems design
- Strong familiarity with hardware testing and operation of vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope, power meters, and thermal chamber
- Experience interfacing with high-performance analog sensors (accelerometers, gyros) with low noise, high dynamic range, and temperature stability
Compensation and location
Base pay range for Washington applicants: $156,802.00 to $219,522.45 annually. Other site ranges may differ. Position is located in the Greater Seattle Area.
Employment eligibility
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum. Background check required.
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 regular employees (20+ hours/week)
- Up to four weeks paid time off per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Performance bonuses and additional benefits based on role type and job level (not guaranteed)