New Glenn Avionics Systems Engineer

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely 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. The ideal candidate has a strong systems mindset, enjoys solving complex problems, works effectively across teams, and is passionate about Blue Origin's mission.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to or lead New Glenn Avionics architecture trade studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support.
• Analyze, manage, and interpret requirements at the New Glenn Avionics subsystem level and flow down requirements to lower-level component specifications.
• Generate verification and validation plans, and work with integration and test teams to ensure the New Glenn Avionics subsystem meets requirements.
• Develop and manage power/network architecture, integrating multiple Avionics subsystems while ensuring deterministic performance and budget compliance.
• Develop and manage New Glenn Avionics fault tree analyses and other reliability/safety analyses across the system lifecycle.
• Produce technical writing (procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, analysis support and description documents).
• Contribute to design reviews (e.g. PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and process definition within the New Glenn Avionics engineering team.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical, Computer Science, Aerospace, or related technical subject area.
• 5+ years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems.
• Understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification.
• Demonstrated expertise delivering complex, safety critical, or similarly highly integrated avionics systems involving multiple subsystems and networked and IO interfaces.
• Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment across disciplines.
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated functional understanding of common electrical digital and analog interfaces (e.g. Serial Bus Communications, Video, Audio, Ethernet, Analog Sensors, etc.).
• Knowledge of several of the following avionics specialties: Instrumentation, RF, Ethernet networking, circuit design, safety critical software, wire harnesses, test equipment, environmental/DO-160 testing.
• Demonstrated proficiency communicating and integrating across multiple engineering disciplines to produce a unified coherent product as a team.
• Safety analyses experience such as those described in DO 178, ARP4761, NUREG-0492, NASA AFTH (Functional Hazard Analyses (FHA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTAs)).
• Proficiency in Python, specifically for automation, testing, and data analysis.
• Experience with software testing methodologies and best practices.
• Familiarity with Linux/UNIX environments.
• Experience with data analysis tools like Databricks, Tableau, etc.
• Experience with version control systems (Git).
• Experience with Agile development practices.
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, DOORS/DNG, or MATLAB/Simulink.

Pay

Base Pay Range for WA applicants is $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 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.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for additional benefits and bonuses.

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.