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Blue Origin LLC Electrical Engineer III - Space Avionics Integration 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! We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit 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! This role is part of Enterprise Engineering, where we provide technical standards, tools, processes, training, and subject matter expertise for product engineering and manufacturing. Enterprise Engineering allows all Blue Origin business units to benefit from commonly used capabilities, hardware, and software and assists business units in identifying, selecting, and training engineers from both inside and outside the organization. As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will provide experienced technical leadership to Blue Origin program personnel and the established Radiation Effects team. From mission inception to operation, you will ensure success of Blue Origin's systems. You will actively engage program leadership and engineers to drive intelligent system design, part selection, subcontracts, and analyses. Responsibilities: Support interdisciplinary teams to ensure electronics are hardened against the effects of space radiation. Support design decisions to optimize system performance in space. Analyze the impacts of space radiation environments on components and systems. Assess system-level radiation risk considering fault tolerance, spacecraft design, redundancy, and single event effects criticality analysis. Derive and apply radiation mitigation techniques (filtering, EDAC, current limiting, etc.) to prevent disruption of system performance for space missions. Help maintain Blue's radiation test database. Assist with development and execution of radiation test plans as required. Minimum Qualifications: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Nuclear Science, or related field with 5+ years of job-related experience. Ability to read, analyze, and create electrical schematics and system diagrams. Experience hardening and verifying performance of electrical designs against space radiation effects (total ionizing dose, displacement damage dose, single event effects). Electrical engineering fundamentals, basic digital and analog circuit fundamentals, and familiarity with associated laboratory test equipment. Ability to specify and support PCB bring-up and operational procedures for test. 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. Domestic travel required (10-25%). Foreign travel possible. Preferred Qualifications: Direct experience in radiation design, analysis, and testing of avionics hardware for operation in radiation environments. Basic electronics lab skills include soldering, harnessing, use of oscilloscope, multimeter, and logic analyzer. Experience with PCB design and layout (Altium or similar preferred). Proficiency with scripting (Python) and automation deve