
Senior Controls Engineer
BLUE ORIGIN
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Greater Seattle Area • Alabama • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $197,529 - $276,539 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Work on various spaceflight systems and share in our team's impact on all aspects of requirements development, design, implementation, and verification of mechanical, thermal, fluid, and gaseous control systems
- Collaborate closely with various stakeholders in our team's subsystems to support the development of low and high fidelity plant models
- Perform analysis and design efficient logic algorithms and state machines to manage and control various mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic actuators
- Conduct performance assessments including Monte Carlo analysis
- Develop unit tests for control application software
- Participate in V&V activities such as HIL and subsystem test campaigns
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in engineering or related control systems field with 8+ years of experience
- Experience developing embedded control solutions for complex aerospace mechanical, thermal, hydraulic, fluid and gas systems
- Experience with subsystem modeling, analysis and controls application development tools such as Matlab/Simulink (including autocoding)
- Experience with classical and modern control design and analysis techniques; exposure to optimal control and estimation techniques (e.g. Kalman Filtering) is a plus
- Experience with validation and verification approaches such as unit testing, system simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing or integrated subsystem testing
- Experience with Apache Subversion or Git or similar revision control systems
- Exposure to lean software development practices and techniques; including experience with tool automation and software development using Python and C/C++
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
embedded control solutionsmechanical systemsthermal systemshydraulic systemsfluid systemsgas systemslogic algorithmsstate machinesMonte Carlo analysisunit testing
Soft Skills
collaborationstakeholder engagementperformance assessmentproblem-solvingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in engineering