Senior Power Electronics Design Engineer Verified today

Role Overview

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely 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.

As part of a small, accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for various spaceflight systems and share in the team's impact on all aspects of avionics engineering product development.

Responsibilities

• Develop avionics hardware boards and integrated assemblies with solid understanding of the entire product life-cycle, including concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power-on, functional, acceptance and qualification testing) and release to production.
• Develop analog and digital boards that interact with avionics systems (including power electronics, compute, networking, antennas, sensors and electromechanical/electrohydraulic actuators); including analysis, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification and release.
• Support avionics architecture trades studies, analyses, performance characterization and 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 and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 5+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Experienced in selecting power-stage topologies and control schemes, including both isolated and non-isolated DC-DC converters.
• Direct hands-on experience developing high power/high voltage DC-DC power converters, switches, circuit protection, etc.
• Proficient in circuit simulation tools (e.g., LTspice, PSpice, SIMetrix) for feasibility and verification, including transient analysis, in-rush analysis, stress analysis and stability analysis.
• Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and/or board layout.
• Experience with Si, GaN and SiC devices.
• 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.
• Direct experience designing power electronics for satellite or space hardware applications.
• 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 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 intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments.

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 of 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, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Employment 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.

Background checks required for all positions. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis until requisition is closed.