Controls Engineer Sr

About the role

This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.

Responsibilities

• Work on various spaceflight systems and share in our team's impact on all aspects of requirements development, design, implementation, and verification of mechanical, thermal, fluid, and gaseous control systems.
• Work closely with various stakeholders in our team's subsystems to support the development of low and high fidelity plant models, perform analysis, and design efficient logic algorithms and state machines to manage and control various mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic actuators.
• Conduct performance assessments including Monte Carlo analysis, develop unit tests for control application software, and take part in V&V activities such as HIL and subsystem test campaigns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related control systems field with 8+ years of experience.
• Experience developing embedded control solutions for complex aerospace mechanical, thermal, hydraulic, fluid and gas systems.
• Experience with subsystem modeling, analysis and controls application development tools such as Matlab/Simulink (including autocoding).
• Experience with classical and modern control design and analysis techniques; exposure to optimal control and estimation techniques (e.g. Kalman Filtering) is a plus.
• Experience with validation and verification approaches such as unit testing, system simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing or integrated subsystem testing.
• Exposure to lean software development practices and techniques; including experience with tool automation and software development using Python and C/C++.
• Highly organized team player with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related control systems field with 8+ years of experience.
• Experience developing embedded control solutions for complex aerospace mechanical, thermal, hydraulic, fluid and gas systems.
• Experience with subsystem modeling, analysis and controls application development tools such as Matlab/Simulink (including autocoding).
• Experience with classical and modern control design and analysis techniques; exposure to optimal control and estimation techniques (e.g. Kalman Filtering) is a plus.
• Experience with validation and verification approaches such as unit testing, system simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing or integrated subsystem testing.
• Exposure to lean software development practices and techniques; including experience with tool automation and software development using Python and C/C++.
• Highly organized team player with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

• Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)