Hybrid Senior Controls Engineer

at BLUE ORIGIN

• Job title: Senior Controls Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $197,529 - $276,539 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apache, Python, Subversion
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Greater Seattle Area, United States

About the role

• Controls Engineer for aerospace system development at Blue Origin. Involved in mechanical, thermal, fluid, and gaseous control systems with collaborative engineering efforts.

Responsibilities

• Work on various spaceflight systems and share in our team's impact on all aspects of requirements development, design, implementation, and verification of mechanical, thermal, fluid, and gaseous control systems
• Collaborate closely with various stakeholders in our team's subsystems to support the development of low and high fidelity plant models
• Perform analysis and design efficient logic algorithms and state machines to manage and control various mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic actuators
• Conduct performance assessments including Monte Carlo analysis
• Develop unit tests for control application software
• Participate in V&V activities such as HIL and subsystem test campaigns

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related control systems field with 8+ years of experience
• Experience developing embedded control solutions for complex aerospace mechanical, thermal, hydraulic, fluid and gas systems
• Experience with subsystem modeling, analysis and controls application development tools such as Matlab/Simulink (including autocoding)
• Experience with classical and modern control design and analysis techniques; exposure to optimal control and estimation techniques (e.g. Kalman Filtering) is a plus
• Experience with validation and verification approaches such as unit testing, system simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing or integrated subsystem testing
• Experience with Apache Subversion or Git or similar revision control systems
• Exposure to lean software development practices and techniques; including experience with tool automation and software development using Python and C/C++

Benefits

• 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%
• 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.