Principal Navigation Sensor Hardware Engineer
$177k/y-$248k/y
a day ago
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Summary
Blue Origin is seeking a Principal Navigation Sensor Hardware Engineer to join their team in Seattle, WA. The role involves leading the design, development, and testing of navigation sensor hardware for spaceflight systems.
About the Role
As a Principal Navigation Sensor Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, testing, and debugging navigation sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and star trackers. You will lead the development of reliable hardware that meets the company's position, navigation, and timing requirements, drive regulatory and certification activities, and conduct acceptance and qualification testing for space-worthy sensors.
About You
Required:
- Minimum of BS degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of related experience with navigation sensor and/or avionics assembly design.
- Proven expertise in complex circuit design, including component selection, architecture, circuit schematics, prototyping, and design for industrial manufacturing.
- Understanding of PCB design, assembly, and PCB layout software.
- Familiarity with low-noise analog and digital test equipment.
- Some software experience in C, C++, Python.
- Self-starting who thrives in a fast-paced new product development environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred:
- MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Full product lifecycle gyroscope/accelerometer experience.
- Demonstrated experience in the development, prototyping, testing, and calibration of accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and inertial measurement units.
- Demonstrated experience with design of GPS/GNSS SDR and/or RF comms systems.
- Strong familiarity with hardware testing and the ability to operate test equipment such as a vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope, power meters, and thermal chamber.
- Experience with FPGA design including VHDL/Verilog languages, DSP, and AXI bus protocols.
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%.
- Education Support Program.
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Discretionary bonus designed to reward individual contributions.
Blue Origin
We are building a road to space for the benefit of Earth, humanity’s blue origin. Our team is focused on radically reducing the cost of access to space and harnessing its vast resources while mobilizing future generations to realize this mission. Blue Origin builds reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles, in-space systems, and lunar landers. Discover more at BlueOrigin.com. We hope you engage with us and our community. However, we reserve the right to remove derogatory or off-topic comments from our social media accounts. Thank you for understanding.
Seattle, WA