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FPGA Manager - Core Components Verified today

Blue Origin · 5 Locations · Electronics · first seen 2026-09-03
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Role

As Senior Manager in Core Components, you will lead technical and people management for the design, development, integration, and delivery of vertically integrated RF hardware for lunar missions. You will serve as technical authority for Software Defined Radios, Sensors, FPGA design and verification, embedded software, or signal processing. You will own key technical and process baselines, manage and mentor a high-performing multidisciplinary team, and deliver mission-critical hardware in a dynamic development environment.

Technical Leadership

  • Define, own, and control the technical baseline for products, performing technical work and providing leadership.
  • Lead delivery of complex RF/digital mixed-signal communication PCBs and PCBAs, owning architecture, stack-up/impedance strategy, system and power integrity, EMI/EMC compliance, and design for manufacturability and test with suppliers.
  • Lead the full subsystem life cycle from concept, requirements, architecture, and design through analysis, integration, verification, and validation for lunar missions.
  • Develop, track, and maintain analyses and simulations such as line-up analysis and EM simulations using advanced engineering fundamentals.
  • Own the development, refinement, and continuous improvement of technical processes, tools, and best practices in communications engineering.
  • Lead anomaly investigations, root cause analyses, recovery plans, and risk burn-down for complex development or flight issues.
  • Drive completion of sub-assembly and assembly-level verification and validation activities, including reviewing and authoring subsystem test plans and supporting lab, environmental, or field test efforts.

Project and Program Management

  • Define, own, and control team schedule and cost baselines; manage competing priorities in a dynamic development environment.
  • Manage external procurements and internal dependencies to meet delivery milestones.
  • Drive programmatic and project excellence through a data-driven approach; balance technical performance, schedule, and budget.

People Leadership

  • Manage a team of engineers to specify, design, analyze, manufacture, integrate, test, and deliver mission-critical communications hardware and software.
  • Recruit, hire, and manage high-performing teams.
  • Manage direct reports' professional development, including coaching, performance reviews, and career development.
  • Serve as primary spokesperson and point of contact for the communications area to leadership, external customers, and technical partners.

Cross-Functional and External Engagement

  • Develop and manage relationships across Blue Origin and with external partners, representing the organization as technical expert.
  • Collaborate directly with the vehicle team as primary customer. Represent the RF front-end team in cross-functional meetings.
  • Represent Blue Origin with external consortiums or technical committees and societies as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications

  • B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
  • 8+ years relevant experience in full life cycle development of RF communications hardware including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
  • Proven technical expertise in RF Communications, including integrated circuit design, line-up definition, verification and validation, and system safety.
  • Experience with software tools such as AWR, HFSS, and Altium.
  • Familiarity with standards such as DVB-S2, CCSDS, RS-422, Spacewire, and I2C; experience with space-rated hardware and software.
  • Resource management experience, including staffing, budgeting, and scheduling for multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with verification, integration, and test of integrated subsystems or systems on a spacecraft.
  • Experience managing suppliers and subcontracts, and working with NASA or government partners.
  • Familiarity with Agile project management, risk management, and Earned Value Management.

Compensation

Base pay range varies by location: VA $150,743.00 to $211,039.50; CO $138,181.00 to $193,453.05; WA $150,743.00 to $211,039.50. Other site ranges may differ.

Requirements

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident with a current Green Card, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Standard background check required for all positions.