Senior Manager - TeraWave Avionics Platform

About the role

The Emerging Systems business unit at Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based communications with TeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This multi-orbit constellation will consist of 5,408 optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and 128 satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO), providing enterprise-grade connectivity for critical operations worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership
  • Supply the people, processes, and tools to build and sustain a multi-disciplinary avionics organization scaled to a commercial product development cadence; manage hiring, performance reviews, compensation and promotion, and one-on-one development for your direct reports
  • Lead by example, mentor team members, and create an environment where people grow into their full potential
• Technical Ownership
  • Lead the team to perform architecture studies, concept development, ICD development, procurement, verification planning, integration, build and checkout, and operations support across the avionics product family
  • Develop interface specifications, CONOPS definitions, and design documents for avionics subsystems including hard real-time control electronics, modems, and supervisory electronics
  • Coordinate hardware, software, and supplier management strategies, including fault tolerance and radiation upset tolerance schemes; own the parts, materials, and processes (PMP) control strategy for the avionics product family
  • Partner with Blue Origin's radiation engineering team and avionics leads across the company to establish and enforce a program-level Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) strategy covering multiple orbital regimes, encompassing component selection, design margin policy, test requirements, and system-level mitigation approaches across total ionizing dose (TID) and single-event effects (SEE)
  • Analyze and track key performance metrics throughout the product lifecycle, continually assessing designs to optimize for manufacturability, quality, and cost
  • Communicate status, risks, and challenges effectively to leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or related discipline
• 10+ years managing technical teams and/or leading functional groups
• 10+ years of experience in space flight avionics or electronics hardware development
• Prominent ability to interpret and apply high-level system requirements to practical design solutions
• Experience in a commercial space environment, operating with commercial cost, schedule, and product line discipline
• Experience developing a product line of related products built to a common architecture, rather than single-point mission designs
• Experience building technical teams and engineering capabilities from an early stage
• Experience with electronics for precision electro-mechanical and data handling systems, including high-speed analog and digital control loops, mixed-signal design, low-noise analog front-end circuits, and high-bandwidth servo control systems
• Experience with FPGA-based embedded control systems
• Demonstrated experience with Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) practices including component selection, design margin policies, and system-level mitigation strategies across total ionizing dose (TID) and single-event effects (SEE)
• Comfortable making and owning decisions under uncertainty in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in a relevant engineering discipline
• Direct experience with optical communication terminal electronics
• Familiarity with highly accelerated life testing and highly accelerated stress screening (HALT and HASS)
• Experience with COTS component selection and qualification strategies for space
• Familiarity with hardware and software co-design at the system level, particularly for embedded network processing applications

Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Experience in space flight avionics or electronics hardware development
• Ability to interpret and apply high-level system requirements to practical design solutions
• Experience in a commercial space environment, operating with commercial cost, schedule, and product line discipline
• Experience developing a product line of related products built to a common architecture, rather than single-point mission designs
• Experience building technical teams and engineering capabilities from an early stage
• Experience with electronics for precision electro-mechanical and data handling systems, including high-speed analog and digital control loops, mixed-signal design, low-noise analog front-end circuits, and high-bandwidth servo control systems
• Experience with FPGA-based embedded control systems
• Demonstrated experience with Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) practices including component selection, design margin policies, and system-level mitigation strategies across total ionizing dose (TID) and single-event effects (SEE)
• Comfortable making and owning decisions under uncertainty in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment

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)

Pay

Base Pay Range For WA applicants is $183,807.00 - $257,328.75 Other Site Ranges May Differ

Schedule

Not specified