Principal Avionics Hardware Design Engineer - Glenn

Application Close Date

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 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 part of a small, hard‑working and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of avionics engineering product development: architectural definition and hardware and software development (design and verification). You should be comfortable working in fast‑paced and often uncertain environments, contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating personal leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail.

This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

• Develop analog and digital boards that interact with avionics systems (including sensors and electromechanical/electrohydraulic actuators); including analysis, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification and release.
• Develop avionics hardware (boards and integrated assemblies). Have a solid understanding of the entire product life‑cycle, including concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power‑on, functional / acceptance / qualification testing) and release to production.
• Support avionics architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and controller roadmap direction.
• Support risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root‑cause analysis of test discrepancies.
• Participate in program‑level technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 15+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Direct hands‑on experience developing sophisticated commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies (designing custom cards or integrating COTS hardware).
• Direct hands‑on experience with analog/power, digital and mixed‑signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and board layout.
• Experience with analog and digital filters, signal conditioning and signal processing using discrete components.
• Experience with use of sophisticated computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to supervise sensors and control actuators; including design, development and verification.
• Highly organized standout colleague with excellent technical communication skills (written and verbal).

• Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field with 20+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Proven expertise designing high‑reliability, safety‑critical, Class 2/3 board assemblies; including familiarity with IPC 6xx and NASA‑STD‑8739.n (or similar) standards.
• Proficiency using Altium/Cadence OrCAD / Allegro (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards; and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors.
• Experience with designing safety or critically…