Senior Manager, Avionics Hardware (Engines)

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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 a Product Development Manager within Blue Origin's Engines business unit, leading delivery of safetycritical engine avionics hardware-primarily Engine Controllers-for costoptimized, reusable propulsion systems that support commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight missions. You serve as the singlethreaded leader for an assigned product scope, owning programmatic delivery and the technical plan to meet negotiated customer requirements and internal design criteria such as producibility, product cost, lifecycle cost, and reliability, all aligned to lowering the cost of access to space.

You oversee the technical quality and execution of complex, interdisciplinary engineering work, ensuring cohesive collaboration across electronic design, mechanical enclosure design, and new product introduction manufacturing. The role includes establishing technical standards, development processes, and analytical capabilities, while driving continuous improvement and sharing lessons learned across Blue Engines programs to enhance system performance and maturity.

As a people leader, you directly manage electrical and mechanical engineers and related disciplines, setting assignments, guiding professional growth, and conducting rigorous, thoughtful performance management. You own the full employee lifecycle-hiring the right talent, coaching and developing the team, and building a positive, productive culture that complies with HR processes and policies.

Success in this role requires strong technical expertise, program leadership, and a commitment to quality and safety. You will help build highreliability avionics solutions through tightknit, collaborative teamwork, positively impacting safe human spaceflight while demonstrating passion for Blue Origin's mission and vision.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Product Delivery:

• Manage and deliver engine avionics electronic hardware products by ensuring scrappy and cost-effective execution while maintaining a tight grip on the project deliverables needed to meet program objectives. Track and manage your team execution, and both unit product life cycle cost.

• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks/opportunities. This includes technical, scope (i.e., cost and schedule), asset and safety risks and opportunities specific to program and project execution. Risk management includes identifying, documenting, communicating, developing mitigation plans and collaborating with your peers & program leaders to drive outcomes to program acceptable levels.
• Coordinate and partner with Enterprise functions such as Operations and Supply Chain to drive product cost and meet delivery objectives.
• Partner with other Business Units and centralized Blue avionics hardware teams on driving electronic hardware design and component re-use.

Employee Management:

• Oversee the full lifecycle of your employees including talent acquisition, employee development, and when needed, performance management.
• Foster an environment of continuous growth and learning, ensuring compliance with HR processes and policies.

Technical Leadership:

• Own the overall lifecycle of assigned avionics hardware products from development through qualification/ rate production and successful cost-optimized commercial flight operations.
• Manage interdisciplinary engineering tasks for overall system success.
• Ensure the quality of engineering outputs, providing technical direction and guidance to the team.
• Participate in program level technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in electrical, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, or related field and 10+ years of experience developing electronic systems.
• 10+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in avionics and/or embedded hardware product development and maintenance.
• 2+ years of project management and/or management experience.
• Basic knowledge across relevant engineering disciplines, including requirements negotiation, design, development, analysis, verification, and vehicle integration.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization.
• Track record of leading and managing teams to deliver complex safety critical avionics hardware products.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in aerospace hardware/electronics development.
• Direct hands-on experience and expertise developing electronic hardware products (analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit design, analysis, test, and debug and manufacturing)
• Develop electronic circuits, printed circuit boards, as rugged electronic hardware assemblies across the entire product life-cycle; including concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power-on, functional / acceptance / qualification testing) and release to production. Demonstrated expertise designing high-reliability, safety-critical, Class 3 board assemblies.
• Lead developers of analog instrumentation measurement circuity, embedded processing, and mixed-signal designs. These systems connect with sensors and electromechanical/electro-hydraulic actuators. Designs include analysis, schematics, PCB layout and characterization.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles
• FPGA development experience is a plus
• Familiarity Altium (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards; and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors.
• Exposure to designing safety or mission critical aerospace flight hardware compliant with DO-254.
• Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant, flight hardware intended for space missions.

Compensation Range for:

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

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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.

• 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. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

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