Senior Manager, Avionics Hardware; Engines

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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.

• Manage and deliver engine avionics electronic hardware products by ensuring scrappy and cost‑effective execution while maintaining a tight grip on the project deliverables needed to meet program objectives. Track and manage your team execution, and both unit product life cycle cost.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks/opportunities. This includes technical, scope (i.e., cost and schedule), asset and safety risks and opportunities specific to program and project execution. Risk management includes identifying, documenting, communicating, developing mitigation plans and collaborating with your peers & program leaders to drive outcomes to program acceptable levels.
• Coordinate and partner with Enterprise functions such as Operations and Supply Chain to drive product cost and meet delivery objectives.
• Partner with other Business Units and centralized Blue avionics hardware teams on driving electronic hardware design and component re‑use.

• Oversee the full lifecycle of your employees including talent acquisition, employee development, and when needed, performance management.
• Foster an environment of continuous growth and learning, ensuring compliance with HR processes and policies.

• Own the overall lifecycle of assigned avionics hardware products from development through qualification/ rate production and successful cost‑optimized commercial flight operations.
• Manage interdisciplinary engineering tasks for overall system success.
• Ensure the quality of engineering outputs, providing technical direction and guidance to the team.
• Participate in program level technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in electrical, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, or related field and 10+ years of experience developing electronic systems.
• 10+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in avionics and/or embedded hardware product development and maintenance.
• 2+ years of project management and/or management experience.
• Basic knowledge across relevant engineering disciplines, including requirements negotiation, design, development, analysis, verification, and vehicle integration.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization.
• Track record of leading and managing teams to deliver complex safety critical avionics hardware products.

• Experience in aerospace hardware/electronics development.
• Direct hands‑on experience and expertise developing electronic hardware products (analog, digital, and mixed‑signal circuit design, analysis, test, and debug and manufacturing)
• Develop electronic circuits, printed circuit boards, as rugged electronic hardware assemblies across the entire product life‑cycle; including concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power‑on, functional / acceptance / qualification testing) and release to production. Demonstrated expertise designing high‑reliability, safety‑critical, Class 3 board assemblies.
• Lead developers of analog instrumentation measurement circuity, embedded processing, and mixed‑signal designs. These…