Senior Power Electronics Design Engineer Verified today

Role

You will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for various spaceflight systems as part of a small team of experts. You will impact all aspects of avionics engineering product development for New Glenn, 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 the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

Responsibilities

• Develop avionics hardware boards and integrated assemblies. Understand the entire product lifecycle: 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. Perform analysis, 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 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.
• Proficient in circuit simulation tools (e.g., LTspice, PSpice, SIMetrix) for feasibility and verification. Include 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

Base pay range for WA applicants: $130,706.00 - $182,987.70. Other site ranges may differ.

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 all regular employees working at least 20 hours/week.
• Paid time off up to four weeks per year based on scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Bonuses based on role type and job level (not guaranteed).

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.