Senior Electrical Design Engineer

BLUE ORIGIN

Electrical Design Engineer leading design of avionics electronic hardware for Blue Origin's space vehicles. Collaborating in a team to ensure safety-critical solutions for spaceflight.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeHuntsville • Alabama, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $156,802 - $219,522 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Assembly

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and execute design avionics electronic hardware
Interpret systems engineering and quality requirements as they apply to electrical product development
Develop circuits, boards, and rugged electronic hardware assemblies across the entire product life-cycle
Support risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA)
Manage design schedules of avionics subsystem
Routinely present program status and issues
Identify root cause failure modes using fault tree and fishbone methodologies

Requirements

What you’ll need

B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field with 10 years of professional experience
8+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development
Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital circuit design, analysis, test, and debug
Knowledge of signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles
Highly organized teammate with excellent technical skills (written and verbal)
Experience with data anomaly review and system troubleshooting in a lab or test environment
Passion for Blue Origin’s mission
(Desired) Graduate degree in a related engineering or technical field
(Desired) Expertise designing electronics in a space radiation environment
(Desired) Proven expertise crafting high-reliability, safety-critical, Class 3 board assemblies
(Desired) Understanding of mechanical packaging of avionics in harsh environmental conditions
(Desired) Power conversion electronics as applied to controlling BLDC motor
(Desired) Knowledge of electric motor design and construction
(Desired) Knowledge of EMI issues related to high voltage design
(Desired) Proficiency using CAD layout tools to craft sophisticated printed circuit boards
(Desired) Experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors
(Desired) Exposure to designing safety or critically important aerospace flight hardware aligned with DO-254
(Desired) Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant, radiation-tolerant flight hardware intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Up to four (4) weeks paid time off based on weekly scheduled hours
Up to 14 company-paid holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

avionics electronic hardware developmentanalog circuit designdigital circuit designsignal integritypower groundingboard layout principlesdata anomaly reviewsystem troubleshootinghigh-reliability board assembliespower conversion electronics

Soft Skills

highly organizedexcellent technical skillswritten communicationverbal communication