Sr. Avionics Systems Engineer - C&DH Network Engineer

BLUE ORIGIN • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. Join Blue Origin in our mission to enable millions of people to live and work in space for the benefit of Earth. As a Senior Avionics Systems Engineer within the Lunar Permanence team, you will play a pivotal role in developing the Blue Moon landers and associated infrastructure, essential for transporting crew and cargo to the lunar surface. We seek a professional with robust technical expertise, leadership abilities, and a commitment to quality, aimed at advancing safe human spaceflight. A passion for our mission and vision is essential. You will work within the Avionics Command and Data Handling (C&DH) team, bridging the gap between hardware components and system software, ensuring a robust, low-latency data transfer across the C&DH system. This is a critical role requiring expertise in embedded systems, communication protocols, and real-time network performance.

Requirements

• B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical subject area
• 8+ years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
• Demonstrated expertise delivering complex, safety critical C&DH or similarly highly integrated avionics systems involving multiple subsystems and networked and IO interfaces.
• Demonstrated expertise related to configuring and managing time-sensitive, deterministic networks such as like Time Sensitive Networking, ARINC 664, Time Triggered Ethernet, or other approaches
• Demonstrated expertise with Network/Precision Time Protocol and layer 2/3 networking (e.g., Ethernet, VLANs, QoS, IP, TCP/UDP, routing, etc.)
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems
• An understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification.
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills
• Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment

Nice To Haves

• M.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, Software, Electrical, or related technical subject area
• Experience with human-rated spacecraft
• Experience with full spacecraft design life cycle
• Experience with developing and delivering integrated, space qualified Hardware/Software components. A solid hardware and software background is desired.
• Experience with network topologies, architectures, and design principles
• Experience with spacecraft communication protocols (CCSDS)
• Experience with systems safety design practices
• Experience with electrical architecture diagramming practices and tools including MS Visio
• Experience with software tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, Creo, Jama, Cameo, Confluence, and JIRA

Responsibilities

• Contribute to or lead C&DH architecture trade studies, concept development, interface definition, hardware specifications, analyses, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support.
• Design and implement network architecture (routing/switching, VLANs, etc.) for space vehicles, ensuring deterministic behavior and performance
• Establish and manage network configurations across components on the space vehicle
• Generate network analyses such as data traffic schedule analysis, worse-case latency/jitter analysis, bandwidth utilization and throughput analysis
• Develop and manage C&DH subsystem level requirement, including decomposition to lower-level component specifications
• Hardware/Software Integration – Configure, test, and troubleshooting onboard computing hardware and flight software within laboratory and production environments.
• Generate and execute network verification and validation plans, working closely with integration and test teams to ensure compliance with system requirements.
• Produce technical writing (procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, analysis support and description documents).
• Contribute to design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and peer review within the avionics engineering team.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level