SLD Avionics System Safety & Reliability Engineer III - Lunar Permanence

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!

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's multiple Blue Moon lander product lines. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of people living and working in space, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

As part of a diverse and hardworking team, you will facilitate and perform system safety and reliability analyses, identify hazards, failure causes and mitigations, and provide a detailed record of the safety risk approach. In the early phases of a program, you will focus on assessing functional hazards, developing, and allocating safety and reliability requirements, and defining scope vital to develop a safe and reliable system. In later phases of development, you will manage safety and reliability validation and verification activities, assess safety and reliability impacts of engineering changes and nonconformance's, and ensure that design-specific safety and reliability mitigations are implemented effectively. In this role, you will have the opportunity to continue to engage with the product team well into component qualification, production, and vehicle system certification and operational phases of the program.

This role reports to the Avionics Systems Engineering Manager as part of the Avionics Integrated Project Team. The role includes responsibility for tracking and analyzing key performance metrics for avionics systems throughout the development lifecycle and using those to optimize for manufacturability, quality and cost. You will work directly with NASA and our National Team Partners as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program. You will play a key role in developing the Lunar Transportation system that will return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of 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!

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track record of building trust and effective working relationships that improve team performance, deliver results, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices throughout the product lifecycle
• 5+ years of experience in design, development, integration, or testing - preferably with aerospace hardware or sophisticated technical systems
• 3+ years of experience with failure analysis (FA) activities (e.g., X-Ray/CT, SEM/EDS, etc.) and the ability to use these FA methodologies to derive a root cause of failure
• 3+ years of experience with reliability test design, procedures, and specifications to conduct accelerated life testing (e.g., ALT, HALT, etc), reliability demonstration tests (RDT), and quality screening (e.g., ESS, HASS, etc.)
• Experience performing system safety and reliability analyses, such as: Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Experience with Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and probabilistic risk analysis
• Working understanding of configuration management principles and practices
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• B.S./B.A. degree in engineering or a relevant technical field
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent field desired
• Experience implementing hazard mitigations into product definition artifacts (e.g. drawings)
• Experience managing large, sophisticated system safety efforts
• Experience integrating sophisticated subsystems into a spacecraft, launch vehicle, or test facility
• Experience implementing, customizing or improving system safety policy and procedure for a development engineering environment and transitioning products to operation and production
• Deep understanding of principals and practices for systems engineering
• Experience with failure reporting and corrective action systems (FRACAS)
• Experience with failure rate prediction for electrical components and circuit card assemblies
• Experience with FEA software with respect to electronics reliability analysis such as Ansys Mechanical and Ansys Sherlock
• Experience with electronic failure analysis techniques (e.g., Electrical debug, dye-and-pry, decapping, EMMI/OBIRCH, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, etc.) to root cause electronics
• Experience with Supplier Reliability principles and practices with special focus on PCBA environmental testing and manufacturing processes (e.g., SMT Reflow, wave soldering, selective soldering, etc.)
• Experience using scripting languages such as VBA and Python to automate processes and analyses
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as JAMA or similar
• Experience working in a safety-critical environment
• Basic project management skills

Compensation range for on site CO applicants is $125,400-$175,560

Compensation range for on site WA applicants is $136,800-$191,520

Compensation range for on site CA applicants is $136,800-$191,520

Other site ranges may differ

Inclusivity Statement

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Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S.as a refugee or granted asylum.

Benefits

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.

Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

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