BLUE ORIGIN

Senior Electrical Engineer

BLUE ORIGIN
Posted 10/19/2026full-timeLongmont • Colorado • United StatesSenior💰 $144,179 - $201,850 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates extensive experience in electronic product design, including embedded system design and motion control for regulated environments. Proficient in leading technical teams, developing engineering processes, and collaborating with customers to deliver flight-ready electronic motion-control products.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Embedded System DesignElectronic Product DesignAltium DesignerTechnical Team LeadershipPrototype Development

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Support development, design, testing, and manufacturing of electronic motion-control products
  • Provide proposal support and labor estimates
  • Shepherd multi-board designs through development to flight-ready products
  • Lead electronic design within project teams
  • Develop engineering processes and lead design reviews
  • Collaborate with customers
  • Perform informal team task management
  • Review the work of other team members
  • Document work to completion
  • Develop electronic architectures for motor controllers
  • Perform schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium
  • Provide technical team leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited technical college or university in Electrical or Computer Engineering
  • 10+ years of work experience in electronic product design
  • Extensive experience with embedded system design, including digital, analog, and mixed-signal design
  • Experience with board-level communication interfaces: I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, and CAN
  • Experience with controlled impedance for high-speed channel design, including SpaceWire, 10GbE, and SerDes
  • Experience with linear and switch-mode DC/DC power conversion
  • Experience preparing test procedures and reports, interface control documents, and ECOs
  • Familiarity with design analysis and simulation, including WCA/WCCA, reliability, radiation, and SPICE
  • Experience with cable and wire harness design
  • Experience with signal and power integrity (SI/PI)
  • Experience with electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
  • Extensive experience in prototype development, debugging, and laboratory testing
  • Proven experience crafting and launching products in regulated environments
  • Passion for Blue Origin’s mission and vision
  • U.S. citizenship or nationality, U.S. permanent residency, or lawful admission to the U.S. as a refugee or asylee
  • Ability to complete the required background check
  • Preferred: experience with motion control and electromechanical systems for space environments
  • Preferred: history of leading technical teams and mentoring junior engineers
  • Preferred: EEE-INST-002 and radiation-hardness/mitigation experience
  • Preferred: FMEA experience
  • Preferred: technical proposal content generation and labor/cost estimation
  • Preferred: Altium Designer
  • Preferred: DSP and microcontroller firmware development
  • Preferred: FPGA design using Verilog and VHDL
  • Preferred: system and functional requirements generation

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Relocation provided
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Basic and supplemental life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • 401(k) with company match of up to 5%
  • Education Support Program
  • Stock options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours/week
  • Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours
  • Up to 14 company-paid holidays
  • Potential role- and level-dependent benefits and bonuses, subject to company discretion

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Hard Skills
Digital DesignAnalog DesignMixed-Signal DesignSchematic CapturePCB LayoutBoard-Level Communication InterfacesControlled Impedance DesignDC/DC Power ConversionSignal IntegrityElectromagnetic Compatibility
Soft Skills
CollaborationTeam ManagementMentoring
Tools & Technologies
AltiumSPICEFMEA
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor's Degree in Computer EngineeringEEE-INST-002
Industry Keywords
Motion ControlElectromechanical SystemsRegulated EnvironmentsPrototype DevelopmentLaboratory Testing