Power Regulator Responsible Engineer, Project Sunrise

Blue Origin•Longmont, CO

About The Position

Blue Origin is hiring a Power Regulator Responsible Engineer for Project Sunrise, a satellite constellation of orbital data centers. The role is part of Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE), which supports Blue Origin’s mission and advances engineering workflows, shared solutions and standards, simplicity, lower costs, and manufacturable design. The engineer will serve as the box Responsible Engineer for Power Regulator products. These products regulate power from the solar array, manage power to and from batteries, and convert power from the high-voltage DC bus to low-voltage DC for compute hardware. The engineer owns the integrated product and leads a multidisciplinary team spanning ASIC and circuit design, electromagnetic design, board layout, thermal and mechanical design, firmware, manufacturing, and test. Accountability extends from requirements and architecture through design, qualification, flight, and establishing production capacity that begins at megawatt scale and scales toward gigawatt scale. The role also has programmatic ownership and is accountable for delivering on time and at a cost competitive with terrestrial equivalents, while balancing space-grade reliability with high-volume manufacturability, yield, test throughput, cost, and schedule.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
At least 8 years of hands-on experience designing, testing, and debugging switching power converters, such as DC/DC, DC/AC, or battery charge/discharge regulators.
Experience as a box, assembly, or product-level Responsible Engineer, or in an equivalent technical lead role, with accountability for an integrated multi-card unit through integration and test.
Design experience with high-voltage power electronics above 100V, including bus architecture, protection circuits, and PCB layout with explicit consideration of creepage, clearance, and thermal management.
Experience selecting and sizing power semiconductors (Si, SiC, and/or GaN), gate drivers, and magnetics.
Proficiency performing and documenting power electronics analyses, including worst-case analysis, derating, stability, power dissipation, transient response, and reliability.
Hands-on experience leading or substantially contributing to a hardware qualification campaign, including test-plan development and anomaly resolution.
End-to-end product development experience from requirements definition through qualification and production release.
Familiarity or fluency with AI tools and their application to design optimization, analysis, or requirements management.
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.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering focused on power electronics, or a related technical field.
Experience with space power systems, including solar array regulation, battery charge/discharge systems, and radiation-tolerant design practices.
Deep experience with high-frequency, wide-bandgap (GaN/SiC) converters, advanced topologies such as resonant or isolated converters, and high-frequency magnetics design.
Familiarity with digital control of power converters using FPGAs, microcontrollers, or custom ASICs.
Background in high-volume industries such as automotive or data centers, with a focus on DFM/DFT, production test, and yield improvement.
Expertise with modern design and simulation tools such as Altium Designer, LTspice/PLECS, and Python.

Responsibilities

Serve as the single-threaded owner and Responsible Engineer for the Power Regulator product, leading a multidisciplinary team and owning product architecture, requirements, interfaces, and budgets from concept through production.
Lead hands-on technical design and analysis of high-voltage, high-frequency switching power converters, including topology selection, component sizing, control strategy, schematic design, and electrical, thermal, and reliability analyses such as WCA and FMEA.
Own the complete hardware verification and qualification strategy, develop test plans for prototype and flight hardware, lead anomaly investigations, and ensure product validation for the space environment.
Drive the transition to high-rate manufacturing by championing Design for Manufacturability and Test (DFM/DFT), defining automated test requirements, and collaborating with production teams to meet cost and schedule targets.
Deliver the product on time and at a cost competitive with its terrestrial equivalent while addressing manufacturing yield, unit cost, test throughput, and schedule.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
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 per week.
Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Depending 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 employees to share in company results; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and may change or be canceled.