Senior Embedded Control Systems Engineer - Lunar Permanence

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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!

As a
Senior Motor Control Engineer
on Core Avionics, you will serve as the
Responsible Engineer (RE)for a
family of embedded motor controllers
reused across multiple vehicles and mechanisms (e.g., gimbals, valves, pumps, deployables). You will own the
technical baseline
-requirements, architecture, interfaces, design margins, verification evidence, and qualification approach-and guide a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe, repeatable, high-reliability motor control products supporting human lunar missions. You will interface directly with internal vehicle "customers," NASA, and National Team Partners to define product needs and ensure the controllers meet performance, fault tolerance, and safety objectives.

• Own the
  motor controller family technical baseline
  as the Responsible Engineer: requirements, architecture, design decisions, interfaces (ICDs), configuration control, and lifecycle documentation to enable reuse across vehicles.
• Partner with vehicle and subsystem teams ("customers") to define product needs: performance, environments, fault tolerance, safety/hazard controls, operability, integration constraints, and reuse strategy.
• Develop controller architectures spanning
  power electronics, sensing, embedded processing, and firmware
  to support motor technologies including
  BLDC and stepper
  .
• Guide a multi-disciplinary team (EE power, EE digital, firmware, mechanical, analysis, test, systems, safety/reliability, manufacturing) through
  concept design build integration test qualification
  .
• Define and manage controller
  interfaces
  to motors, resolvers/encoders/sensors, vehicle power, and avionics networks; ensure robust EMI/EMC and grounding/bonding strategies as applicable.
• Drive
  fault-tolerant motor control design
  : redundancy strategies, safe-state behavior, fault detection/isolation/recovery, built-in test, degraded modes, and telemetry for health management.
• Plan and execute verification: define test strategy and procedures; support bench bring-up, HIL where appropriate, environmental testing, and qualification/acceptance evidence closure.
• Coordinate parts selection and design practices considering
  space radiation effects
  (TID/SEE), derating, and mitigation approaches appropriate to mission.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade decisions clearly; lead technical reviews and ensure issues are tracked to closure.

• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering
  motor drive/control systems
  for stepper and/or BLDC motor applications (architecture through test).
• Experience with
  high-precision and/or high-speed
  motor control in safety-critical or high-reliability systems.
• Experience designing
  fault-tolerant
  control electronics and embedded control behavior (FDIR, safe state, redundancy management).
• Experience owning a
  technical baseline
  for a product line (requirements, ICDs, design trades, verification/validation, configuration control), including reuse across multiple platforms.
• Demonstrated technical leadership guiding multi-disciplinary teams to successful product delivery.
• Familiarity with
  space radiation effects
  and mitigation strategies relevant to electronics.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including leading technical reviews.
• B.S./B.A. in engineering or a relevant technical field.

• Experience developing spacecraft mechanism controllers (e.g.,
  solar array drive assemblies, antenna gimbals, valve controllers, pump drives
  ).
• Experience with
  Altium
  (or equivalent) for PCB design collaboration/review.
• Experience performing
  FMEA/FTA
  (including network/system-level fault tree contributions) or other reliability/fault tolerance analyses.
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as
  Jama
  (or similar).
• Experience working in a
  safety-critical
  development environment and supporting qualification testing campaigns.
• Basic project management skills (planning, milestones, risk management, cross-team coordination).

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