Sr Electrical Engineer

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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 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.

As part of a small, high-impact team responsible for design and definition of integration, installation, refurbishment, maintenance, and operations, the Senior Electrical Engineer delivers end-to-end electrical engineering solutions across a broad scope. Working with no oversight, this engineer develops advanced solutions to complex problems requiring ingenuity and creativity, serves as the prime technical contact for electrical scope on efforts requiring coordination across multiple organizations, and provides technical leadership and mentorship to the team.

This role owns electrical technical approval authority for its scope and drives the processes, standards, and best practices that surround a successful integration effort.

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 25% of the time

• Own the design, analysis, and implementation of electrical engineering solutions spanning motor systems, instrumentation, and controls, including architecture and requirements decomposition across interconnected, integrated systems
• Serve as technical lead for electrical scope on a small team with wide-ranging responsibility, determining methods and procedures on new assignments and making trade-offs between low-, medium-, and high-performance architecture choices
• Act as prime technical contact with stakeholder groups—including operations, manufacturing, test, facilities, safety, and external partners and suppliers—to negotiate requirements, set technical direction, and align on solutions
• Review the technical work of others, detect subtle flaws, and provide substantial design improvements; mentor and train engineers and technicians on techniques, procedures, and criteria required for design release and turnover
• Lead anomaly investigations, failure investigations, and root-cause analyses on complex electrical and electromechanical system failures, and own development and execution of recovery and corrective-action plans
• Provide senior engineering leadership across supporting disciplines, including safety and failure-effects analysis, systems engineering, configuration management, quality, work-instruction authoring, work scheduling, technical design/drafting, and process development
• Provide input to and be accountable for schedule, budget, and milestones for assigned electrical scope; identify and communicate technical, cost, and schedule risk to senior program and technical leaders
• Own process and standards improvements and lead significant tool development that improves the efficiency and reduces the error rate of electrical design, installation, and verification
• Own the preventative and corrective maintenance strategy for electrical systems, including obsolescence planning and identification/procurement of critical spare parts
• Architect, configure, and support networking infrastructure supporting controls and instrumentation
• Set and enforce safe-work practice implementation in design and execution, including…