2025 University Grad- EVA and Crew Systems Avionics Hardware Engineer, Lunar Permanence

$86,760 - $121,464/Yr

Blue Origin - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Entry Level

Seattle, WA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Avionics Hardware Engineer position at Blue Origin is a critical role within the Lunar Permanence business unit, focusing on the development of sustainable infrastructure for transporting crew and cargo to the Lunar Surface. This position involves collaborating with a diverse team of engineers to design and maintain electronic hardware for spacecraft, ensuring safe and repeatable spaceflight. The engineer will be responsible for the entire product lifecycle, from concept to production, and will play a key role in advancing human space exploration.

Responsibilities

• Develop circuits, boards, and rugged electronic hardware assemblies across the entire product life-cycle, including concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification, and release to production.
• Develop analog, digital, and mixed-signal designs that interact with avionics systems, including analysis, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification, and release.
• Support avionics controller architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization, and specification.
• Support controller 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.
• Effectively communicate development status, risks, and challenges to management.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• A breadth of understanding in electronics hardware development such as developing complex circuit cards, consumer electronics, wireless devices, or other advanced electronic commercial or aerospace products.
• Experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, troubleshooting, signal integrity, power, and grounding and general board layout principles.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles.
• Familiarity with amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, power supplies, and analog circuits.
• Desire to work hands-on, both independently and as part of a team, throughout the development and production phases of the electronic assembly product lifecycle.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of collaboration.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice-to-haves

• Master of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Experience in design, development, test and operation of vehicle Avionics systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing high reliability safety-critical, Class 2/3 board assemblies; familiarity with IPC-A-600/610, DO-254 and similar standards.
• Experience with space vehicle avionics systems hardware development, integration, and test.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Discretionary bonus designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.