Reliability Engineer - Satellite & Payloads - TeraWave

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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!

Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based communications with Tera Wave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This multi-orbit constellation will consist of optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), providing enterprise-grade connectivity for critical operations worldwide.

As the Tera Wave Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads, you will serve as the hardware reliability technical focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF and optical payload hardware, avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC hardware, thermal-control hardware, structures and mechanisms, harnesses, connectors, and EEE parts. You will translate mission availability and lifetime objectives into actionable hardware reliability requirements, analyses, design decisions, and verification evidence across a high-rate constellation product lifecycle.

Special Mentions Relocation provided

Up to 15% as program needs require

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Develop, maintain, and execute the Tera Wave hardware reliability and maintainability approach across satellites, spacecraft bus systems, and RF and optical payload hardware, aligned with program mission-success objectives

Derive and allocate quantitative reliability, availability, and mission-life requirements from system objectives to spacecraft and payload hardware, LRUs, CCAs, EEE parts, mechanisms, harnesses, and critical hardware interfaces.

Build and maintain reliability block diagrams, functional failure analyses, FMEAs/FMECAs, fault trees, critical-item lists, and single-point-failure assessments for nominal, degraded, contingency, and safe-mode operations.

Partner with system and hardware subsystem architects to improve design robustness through derating, redundancy, cross-strapping, electrical and mechanical isolation, protective circuitry, design margins, parts selection, and graceful degradation.

Perform reliability predictions and sensitivity studies using appropriate component, test, supplier, and field/heritage data; clearly state model assumptions, uncertainty, confidence, and limitations.

Quantify the reliability and availability impact of satellite and payload hardware trades, including, redundancy and sparing, RF and optical terminal architecture, avionics and EPS topology, propulsion capability, sensor and actuator selection, electrical protection, and hardware partitioning.

Integrate radiation-induced failures, EEE part degradation, thermal and mechanical cycling, optical and RF degradation, mechanism wear, connector and harness failure modes, latent defects, and manufacturing variation into hardware reliability analyses in partnership with Radiation, EEE Parts, M&P, Manufacturing, Quality, and subsystem teams.

Define hardware reliability demonstration, growth, and verification plans; support qualification, acceptance, highly accelerated, environmental, life, and integrated hardware testing.

Review requirements, schematics, drawings, interface-control documents, test plans, nonconformances, waivers, and supplier data for hardware reliability impacts.

Establish reliability metrics and evidence packages for program reviews, architecture closure, PBRs, design…