Sr. PCB Design Engineer - New Glenn Verified today

Role Overview

You will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for various spaceflight systems on 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. The vehicle's first stage is fully reusable and was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

Responsibilities

• Develop avionics hardware boards and integrated assemblies, managing the entire product lifecycle: concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power-on, functional, acceptance, qualification testing), and production release.
• Design analog and digital boards that interact with avionics systems including sensors and electromechanical/electrohydraulic actuators, including 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 7+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Direct hands-on experience developing sophisticated commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies (designing custom cards or integrating COTS hardware).
• Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and board layout.
• Exposure to analog and digital filters, signal conditioning and signal processing using discrete components.
• Familiarity with sophisticated computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to supervise sensors and control actuators, including design, development and verification.
• 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.
• Proven expertise designing high-reliability, safety-critical Class 2/3 board assemblies with familiarity of 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 for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments.

Compensation and Benefits

Base pay for Washington applicants: $156,802.00 to $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 up to 5%, education support program, and stock options for regular employees. Paid time off up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays. Additional bonuses and eligibility based on role type and job level at company discretion.

Employment Requirements

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum. Background check required for all positions.