Principal Electromagnetic Effects Engineer
Blue Origin
Seattle, Washington
Job Description
We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.
As part of a diverse and hardworking team of electronics engineers, you will be responsible for defining and documenting the EME requirements for New Glenn electrical systems and components. You will also lead design trades for system approaches for EMI/EMC and lightning tolerance. Your responsibilities will include developing verification strategies for electrical system design requirements.
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!
Qualifications:
- Help establish program level EMC requirements and verification strategy for New Glenn
- Includes a level of requirements decomposition, and margin establishment
- Create top level plans for EMC
- Program level approach, test and verification plans
- System level approach, test and verification plans
- Component level approach, test and verification plans
- Scope level of effort, both timing and staff workload
- Contribute to vehicle, system, and component level requirements and verification for EMI/EMC, lightning, ESD, and RF
- Train and give mentoring on system level EMC, ESD and lightning topics to New Glenn engineers
- Document guides on EMC, ESD, and lightning modelling best practices to be used for program execution
- Provide recommendations for skills needed for hiring direct support
- Consult with Blue and external analysis contractor to support accurate New Glenn lightning models and analyses
- Evaluate New Glenn’s design approach and provide suggestions as needed for mitigating issues and ensuring verifiable solutions
- Provide lesson’s learned and suggestions for performing EMC, ESD, and lightning analysis work
- Review co-site computational analysis and ensure vehicle level issues are covered
- Provide any necessary input for accuracy of results
- ESD requirement support
- Antenna support, lightning protection, bonding, etc
- RF window lightning protection
Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion - 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.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Compensation range for on site WA applicants is $169,500-$248,600
Compensation range for on site CA applicants is $169,500-$248,600
Other site ranges may differ
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.
Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation
Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at
EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com
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Benefits
Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.
Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays
Discretionary bonus programs
