Embedded Control Electronics Hardware Engineer III

Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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 part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.

We are seeking an Embedded Control Electronics Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and validate control board hardware for power conversion and power electronics systems. This role is focused on embedded control electronics, sensing architecture, ADC measurement accuracy, and hardware interfaces between digital control platforms and power electronics hardware. The ideal candidate is a hands-on hardware engineer with strong experience in embedded control board design for power electronics. They understand how control boards interact with sensors, ADCs, digital controllers, gate drivers, and power stages, and they are comfortable debugging real hardware in the lab.

Key Responsibilities

- Design embedded control board hardware for power conversion systems, including converters, inverters, motor drives, and related power electronics platforms.
- Develop control board architectures using microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, ADCs, and mixed-signal circuitry.
- Design voltage, current, and temperature sensing circuits for accurate system monitoring and control.
- Develop signal conditioning, filtering, scaling, isolation, and protection circuitry for sensor inputs.
- Interface analog sensing circuits with ADCs and validate measurement accuracy, resolution, timing, calibration, and noise performance.
- Support schematic design, component selection, PCB layout review, board bring-up, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Work closely with firmware, controls, and power electronics engineers to integrate control boards with power stages, gate drivers, sensors, and communication interfaces.
- Debug control board hardware issues related to ADC readings, sensor accuracy, grounding, EMI, isolation, timing, and protection behavior.
- Validate control board performance in lab environments using oscilloscopes, power supplies, meters, signal generators, and other test equipment.

Required Qualifications

- Experience designing embedded control board hardware for power electronics or power conversion systems.
- Strong understanding of microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, ADCs, and digital control hardware.
- Experience with voltage, current, and temperature sensing architecture.
- Knowledge of ADC signal chains, analog front-end design, signal conditioning, filtering, calibration, and measurement accuracy.
- Familiarity with mixed-signal PCB design considerations, including grounding, isolation, noise reduction, EMI, and high-voltage system interfaces.
- Ability to read schematics, review PCB layouts, bring up new hardware, and troubleshoot board-level issues.
- Hands-on lab experience testing and validating embedded control electronics.
- BS Engineering (computer engineering, electrical engineering, or similar) and 5+ years relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with power converters, inverters, motor drives, battery systems, renewable energy systems, or high-voltage power electronics.
- Experience with gate driver interfaces, fault detection, protection circuits, and isolated sensing.
- Familiarity with CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, PWM, and other embedded communication or control interfaces.
- Experience supporting hardware from concept through prototype, validation, and production release.
- Basic understanding of firmware or control algorithms for power electronics systems.

Base Pay Range for:
WA applicants is $192,051.00 - $268,870.35

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? 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 an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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.

Background Check

- Required for all positions: Blue’s Standard Background Check
- Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation
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- Required for certain Job Profiles: Ability to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical

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.
- Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
- 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.