Hardware Design Engineer

About the role

This role is part of Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE), supporting Blue Origin’s mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. The team fosters innovation and drives engineering workflows of the future, shared solutions and standards, simplicity and lower costs, and manufacturable design.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test spacecraft avionics systems
• Lead the design and analysis of vehicle power systems, including power generation, energy storage, regulation, and distribution architectures
• Perform hands-on fabrication, assembly, and testing of engineering-level hardware, including building and modifying wire harnesses, soldering components, and integrating sensor systems for rapid prototyping and troubleshooting
• Design for the space environment, applying principles of radiation hardening (TID, SEE) to ensure system reliability
• Perform analysis and select components to meet mission radiation requirements
• Define and manage requirements for various sensors (e.g., IMUs, star trackers, magnetometers, pressure transducers, temperature sensors) and their corresponding electrical interfaces (e.g., analog, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-422, CAN, Ethernet)
• Collaborate with mechanical and thermal engineering teams to influence vehicle layout, packaging, connector selection, and overall system design to meet avionics requirements
• Create comprehensive test plans, procedures, and reports for hardware verification and validation at the board, box, and system levels
• Troubleshoot complex hardware issues across integrated systems and support vehicle-level testing and launch campaigns
• Generate and maintain electrical power budgets encompassing all power consumption and generation/storage margin management by mission phase

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience in avionics and power hardware development for aerospace, defense, automotive, or other high-reliability applications
• Demonstrated experience as a hands-on engineer, with direct experience designing, building, and reworking wire harnesses and prototype electronics
• Strong understanding of designing for the space radiation environment and its effects on electronic components
• Experience working with a variety of sensor types and their associated analog and digital interfaces
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium Designer or Cadence

Qualifications

• Master of Science in a related technical discipline
• Experience with end-to-end development of avionics for a spaceflight mission
• Experience with environmental testing (thermal, vacuum, vibration, shock) per standards like SMC-S-016 or MIL-STD-810
• Experience with high-voltage power systems
• Familiarity with systems engineering processes, including requirements management and verification

Skills

• Systems-thinking
• Hands-on builder and problem-solver
• Design and development of spacecraft avionics systems
• Power systems design and analysis
• Prototyping and testing of engineering-level hardware
• Space radiation environment design
• Sensor interface design and management
• Collaboration with mechanical and thermal engineering teams
• Electrical power budget creation and management

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
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays

Pay

Base Pay Range For WA applicants is $107,136.00 - $149,990.40

Schedule

Not specified