SLD Electromechanical Engineer, Mission-Crew Interfaces, Lunar Transportation

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!  

This role is part of the Lunar Transportation business unit. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of
people living and working in space, we are building the sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo
from Earth to the Lunar Surface.

As part of a diverse and hardworking team of engineers, technicians, and specialists, you will report to the Mission-Crew Interfaces IPT Lead as an electromechanical engineer for the Lunar Crew Module.  You will be responsible for the definition, design, development, procurement, test, and delivery of flight avionics hardware within the Displays & Controls, Audiovisual Systems, and/or Utilization subsystems. 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:

• Support subsystem Responsible Engineers by providing component and subsystem trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and roadmap direction.

• Support risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.

• Collaborate with stakeholders including Flight Software, Systems, Harnessing, Command & Data Handling, Electrical Power, Communications, Piloting, Logistics, and Human Integration.

• Effectively communicate development status, risks, and challenges to management.

 

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field

• 5+ years of direct experience in electronics or electromechanical hardware development

• Experience designing and developing electronic hardware with direct human interaction

• Direct hands-on experience developing complex commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies (designing custom cards or integrating COTS hardware). 

• Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and general board layout principles.

• Exposure to analog and digital filters, signal conditioning and signal processing using discrete components.

• Familiarity with use of complex computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to monitor sensors and control actuators; including design, development and verification.

• Highly organized team player with excellent technical communication skills (written and verbal)

• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

 

Desired:

• Exposure to designing safety or mission critical aerospace flight hardware compliant with DO-254.

• Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant, radiation-hardened flight hardware intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments.

• Demonstrated experience designing and developing electromechanical hardware for flight control, piloting, aerospace audiovisual systems, and/or spaceflight payloads.

• Demonstrated expertise designing high-reliability, safety-critical, Class 2/3 board assemblies; including familiarity with IPC 6xx and NASA-STD-8739.n (or similar) standards.

• Proficiency using Altium/Cadence OrCAD / Allegro (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards; and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors.

• Proficiency with scripting; programming and analysis/modeling tools: Python, Linux/Windo