Controls Engineer Sr

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.As part of a hardworking team of engineers you will 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. In this role you will work 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. You will be involved in conducting performance assessments including Monte Carlo analysis, develop unit tests for control application software, and take part in V&V activities such as HIL and subsystem test campaigns. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human flight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!QualificationsBachelors degree in engineering or related control systems field with 8+ years of experienceExperience developing embedded control solutions for complex aerospace mechanical, thermal, hydraulic, fluid and gas systemsExperience 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 plusExperience with validation and verification approaches such as unit testing, system simulation, hardware‑in‑the‑loop testing or integrated subsystem testingExperience with Apache Subversion or Git or similar revision control systemsExposure to lean software development practices and techniques; including experience with tool automation and software development using Python and C/C++Highly organized team player with excellent technical written and verbal communication skillsDesiredAdvanced graduate degree in engineering or related control systems field with 6+ years of experience developing mission or safety‑critical control system solutionsExperience developing real‑time embedded control solutions (classical, modern, non‑linear, optimal, etc.) for complex aerospace mechanical, fluid, thermal and gas systemsExperience developing controls applications for hydraulic servo‑valve systems and electrical motorsExperience modelling and analysing control solutions with I/O transducers: displacement, rate and acceleration sensors; pressure and temperature sensors; servo and solenoid actuators; etc.Experience across the full product development lifecycle: concept definition, architecture, requirements capture and development, implementation, verification, system integration, qualification and releaseExposure to development of embedded control system solutions that comply with DO‑160, DO‑178 and DO‑254 or similar guidelinesFamiliarity with DOORs Next Generation (DNG) or similar requirements management systems; Atlassian JIRA or similar issue tracking systemsPassion for aerospace and the development of human spaceflightCompensation RangeWA applicants: $197,529.00 - $276,539.55BenefitsMedical, 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. 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