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Blue Origin LLC SLD Electrical Engineer II, Mission-Crew Interfaces in Seattle, Washington
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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! Lunar Permanence: This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's multiple Blue Moon lander product lines. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of people living and working in space, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. As part of a hardworking team of diverse engineers and specialists, you will report to the Mission-Crew Interfaces IPT Lead as an electrical engineer for the Lunar Crew Module. You will be responsible for the definition, design, development, procurement, test, and delivery of electrical spaceflight hardware for payload utilization, audio, cameras, crew controls, and/or displays. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and attention towards safe and reliable spaceflight. You will work directly with NASA and our National Team Partners as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program. You will play a key role in developing the Lunar Transportation system that will return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of Earth. 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! Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Develop circuits, boards, and 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. Develop analog, digital, and mixed-signal designs that interact with avionics systems (including sensors and power management), including analysis, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification and release. Define and execute tests at the integrated assembly level in avionics development labs, environmental test labs, radiation test labs and vendor test labs. Support avionics controller architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and controller roadmap direction. Support controller risk analyses, worst case and derating 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. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related disciplines 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. 2+ years experience developing and delivering production electrical hardware for spacecraft, aircraft, automotive, medical, consumer electronics, or equivalent fields Familiarity with complex computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to monitor sensors and drive actuators, amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, power supplies, and analog circuits. Experience developing and testing hardware to MIL-STD-461 and similar environment