Avionics Operational Integrator III

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 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.

As a small team of passionate experts, each member has full ownership over the operations of their respective domains. We are looking to hire an operations integrator who can take ownership of defining and enforcing the operation of the Avionics systems on New Glenn, from CONOPS to functional architecture, components, and software. The role will follow the development of hardware, autonomous software, and testing, and will be accountable for feeding lessons learned into coordinated operation of the subsystem on the flight vehicle.

The successful candidate will build a comprehensive set of constraints, alerts, and limits for the New Glenn operations teams, and will collaborate with stage‑level leads.

• Build detailed CONOPS for pre‑launch and flight operations
• Define constraints for the end‑to‑end safe handling and successful testing and launch operations
• Collaborate with integrated test, launch operations, and autonomous flight operations customer teams to incorporate operational constraints into downstream procedures and flight plans
• Develop console products that will be used by operators during test and launch operations
• Provide real‑time engineering anomaly resolution during integrated test and launch operations

• Minimum of a B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or a related technical field
• 5+ years validated experience with Avionics operations, including a combination of analysis, design, test, and operations for launch systems
• Hands‑on experience in developing, authoring, and implementing integrated tests or operating launch vehicles
• Experience with developing analyses and trade studies for sophisticated avionics systems
• Ability to work with partially defined requirements and changing criteria
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships
• Engaging communicator, able to explain difficult engineering concepts to people of other engineering fields:
  Electrical, Software, Mechanical

• Launch vehicle controller (front room or engineering back room) experience
• Familiarity with DO‑160, MIL‑STD‑810, MIL‑STD‑461, and/or SMC‑S‑016 testing standards
• Experience with Ethernet based communication protocols
• Instrumentation knowledge and operational experience with data acquisition systems and electrical test equipment
• Multi‑functional experience in fluids, hydraulics, mechanical, or actuated systems
• Experience working in an electronics laboratory environment
• Experience working with electronics in a large‑scale manufacturing environment
• Experience with software tools such as JIRA, DOORS, MATLAB, Python, GIT, Creo, Confluence, and Windchill

Base Pay Range for WA applicants is $ - $

Other site ranges may differ

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.

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