Senior Motor Control Avionics Engineer – Lunar Permanence

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At Blue Origin we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. Were working to develop reusable safe and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety collaboration and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

As a Senior Motor Control Avionics Engineer on the Core Avionics team you will own the technical baseline for a family of embedded motor controllers reused across multiple vehicles and mechanisms in support of Blue Origins Lunar Permanence efforts. These controllers may support applications such as gimbals valves pumps and deployable mechanisms and must be designed for high reliability fault tolerance and operation in demanding environments.

This is a hands-on engineering addition to owning requirements architecture interfaces and technical decisions you will work directly with controller hardware in the lab through bring-up integration troubleshooting verification and qualification. The engineer in this position is expected to be comfortable debugging real hardware and resolving issues across electronics firmware sensors actuators and system interfaces.

The ideal candidate has deep experience with motor control systems and embedded electronics strong technical leadership skills and the ability to guide a multi-disciplinary team through the full product lifecycle. Prior hardware design experience is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for a family of embedded motor controllers owning the technical baseline across requirements architecture interfaces verification and lifecycle documentation.
• Define and maintain reusable motor controller product architectures for application across multiple mechanisms vehicles and mission use cases.
• Partner with vehicle and subsystem teams to understand mission and mechanism needs including performance environmental fault tolerance operability safety and integration requirements.
• Develop controller solutions spanning embedded processing sensing power electronics interfaces and firmware for motor technologies including BLDC and stepper motors.
• Work directly with controller hardware in the lab supporting bench bring-up checkout integration troubleshooting and failure investigation.
• Debug issues that span hardware and software boundaries using standard lab equipment such as oscilloscopes logic analyzers power supplies DAQ systems and HIL/bench test setups.
• Define and manage interfaces between motor controllers and motors resolvers/encoders/sensors vehicle power avionics networks and higher-level system control functions.
• Guide a multi-disciplinary engineering team across concept development design build integration test qualification and production transition.
• Lead design trades and technical decision-making for controller performance redundancy fault handling environmental robustness manufacturability and reuse.
• Drive fault-tolerant control strategies including safe-state behavior fault detection/isolation/recovery built-in test degraded modes and health telemetry.
• Plan and execute verification efforts including test strategy procedure development hardware bring-up integration support environmental test support and closure of qualification and acceptance evidence.
• Review hardware designs schematics layouts component selections and test results in close collaboration with electrical design engineers.
• Coordinate with systems firmware electrical mechanical safety reliability manufacturing and test teams to ensure successful product delivery.
• Communicate technical status risks issues and trade decisions clearly to peers management and program stakeholders.
• Support technical reviews and ensure actions risks and open issues are tracked to resolution.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering aerospace engineering mechanical engineering computer engineering or another relevant technical field.
• Significant experience developing and delivering motor control or motor drive systems for stepper BLDC or similar electromechanical actuator applications.
• Experience with embedded control electronics in safety-critical high-reliability or mission-critical environments.
• Experience owning or leading a technical baseline including requirements interfaces design trades verification planning and configuration-controlled product documentation.
• Hands-on experience working with control hardware in the lab including bring-up integration test troubleshooting and verification of embedded electromechanical systems.
• Ability to debug issues spanning electronics firmware sensors actuators communications interfaces and system integration.
• Experience designing or evaluating fault-tolerant architectures and fault response behavior for embedded control systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong written verbal and presentation communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. in electrical engineering aerospace engineering computer engineering robotics controls or a related field.
• Experience with spacecraft or aerospace mechanism controllers such as gimbals valve actuators pump drives solar array drive assemblies or deployable systems.
• Experience with hardware bring-up and debug of motor controller electronics including mixed-signal digital and power interfaces.
• Experience reviewing or contributing to electronics hardware design including schematic review PCB layout review parts selection design-for-test or design-for-manufacture.
• Prior ownership of motor controller actuator controller or embedded avionics hardware through qualification and production.
• Familiarity with radiation effects derating component selection and mitigation approaches relevant to space electronics.
• Experience with FMEA FTA reliability analysis hazard analysis or safety-critical development practices.
• Experience with qualification acceptance and environmental test campaigns.
• Familiarity with systems engineering and requirements management tools such as Jama or similar platforms.
• Experience working in a highly integrated development environment with firmware electrical systems and test teams.

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• Benefits include: 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% and an 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 companys intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the companys results or other factors at the companys 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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