Senior Manager, Engine Control System Avionics

Sr. Manager leading Engine Control System Avionics at Blue Origin.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeHuntsville • Alabama, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,743 - $211,039 per yearWebsite

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage your project scope by ensuring scrappy and cost-effective execution while maintaining a tight grip on the project deliverables needed to meet program objectives.
Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks/opportunities.
Coordinate and partner with Enterprise functions to drive subsystem cost and meet delivery objectives.
Track and manage your team execution, and subsystem cost/life cycle cost.
Develop and oversee the technical plan, ensuring it aligns to both negotiated customer requirements (vehicle and engine) and internal design criteria.
Own the overall lifecycle of your assigned product scope from development through qualification/rate production and successful cost-optimized commercial flight operations.
Ensure the quality of engineering outputs, providing technical direction and guidance to the team.
Oversee the full lifecycle of your employees including talent acquisition, employee development, and when needed, performance management.

What you’ll need

Proven track record of leading and managing teams to deliver complex engineering subsystem or products.
Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or technical field, or in lieu of a technical degree, must show significant demonstrated experience leading teams designing/ developing complex engineered products.
8+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in avionics systems and/or control systems.
2+ years of project management experience.
Basic knowledge across relevant engineering disciplines, including requirements negotiation, design, analysis, manufacturing, testing and vehicle integration.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization.

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
Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementengineering designrequirements negotiationdesign analysismanufacturingtestingvehicle integrationavionics systemscontrol systems

Soft Skills

team leadershipcommunicationrisk managementemployee developmentperformance management

Certifications

B.S. degree in Engineering