New Glenn Avionics Systems Engineer

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At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! 

This role supports the Avionics Systems Engineering of New Glenn, a reusable single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. The ideal candidate has a strong systems mindset and enjoys solving complex problems, working across teams, and learning new domains. A deep passion for Blue Origin's mission is essential.

• 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.

• 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

• An 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

• 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

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