Sr. Systems Engineer - Avionics

Overview

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 Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

As a Part Of The Command And Data Handling Team, You Will Be The Responsible Engineer For Development Flight Instrumentation (DFI). As The Primary Technical Authority For DFI, You Will Share In The Team’s Impact On All Aspects Of:

• Flight avionics hardware, including computing, signal conditioning, and data acquisition
• Flight instrumentation, including sensors, harnessing, and data reduction
• Ground support equipment and test electronics hardware and software

• Lead the full subsystem life cycle – from concept, requirements, architecture, and design through analysis, integration, verification, and validation for lunar missions.
• Collaborate with product teams to architect solutions using a mixture of custom and COTS avionics instrumentation hardware; then design, integrate and test flight hardware assemblies for functionality / robustness against requirements targets.
• Support product teams during test and flight operations; operation and monitoring, data management, and post-test data reduction for analysis of system performance and troubleshooting.
• Project Management:
  Budget, schedule, and cost management, team coordination, drive make vs buy decisions, procure hardware, contractor management and status / performance report out.
• Document best practices for design, development and implementation of development flight instrumentation.

• B.S. degree or higher in electrical or other appropriate engineering or physics field.
• 8+ years of recent experience in design, development, test and operation of airborne vehicle systems.
• Demonstrated flight instrumentation design, development, test and operation experience.
• Electronic test equipment and data acquisition systems design, test and operation experience.
• Experience with software tools such as DOORS, MATLAB, Cameo, Wireshark, etc. design and analysis tools.
• Familiarity with standards such as deterministic Ethernet such as ARINC 664, TSN, etc., LVDS, RS-485/RS-422, Spacewire, I2C, etc.; experience with space-rated hardware/software.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Digital and analog circuit and filter design, simulation, assembly, and test experience.
• Knowledge of best practices for implementation and design principles for instrumentation in non-laboratory environments.
• Digital signal processing modeling, simulation and design experience (E.g. FIR, IIR, etc).
• Experience with data analysis (Matlab, Excel, Winplot, etc.), and scripting (bash, sh, Python, etc.) tools.
• Experience developing and leading hardware test automation test environments.
• Experience with EMI/EMC compliance and radiation tolerance.
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices, integration processes, design for manufacturing, and quality control.

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