Controls Engineer - New Glenn Blue Origin
Kent, WA

Job Description

Description:

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will design flight control or guidance software for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of flight control application software development and verification. You may also develop, test, and integrate various flight control software applications for both fluid and mechanical sensor and actuator subsystems. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Responsibilities:

* Perform system level analysis to assist in the development of high level performance requirements (
* Develop guidance and control requirements with flow downs to subsystem and software levels and companion verification methods
* Support configuration design studies and develop prototype control system solutions for trade
* Build guidance or control code in Simulink to support autocoding to target
* Conduct stability and performance assessments including development of linear and non-linear models
* Perform analyses, including simulations and Monte-Carlo, to satisfy top-level system specifications and requirements
* Support the development of Simulink and MATLAB tools necessary to analyze, unit test, and verify control and guidance designs
* Support integration and testing of flight software applications
* Develop verification and validation procedures to ensure software products will perform as specified to meet system and subsystem requirements
* Perform plant model validation using test and flight data

Qualifications:

* Minimum B.S. in aerospace, electrical, mechanical, or related engineering with 5+ years of design experience
* Experience in developing control systems and software for complex linear and nonlinear systems including the development of models suitable for control system design
* Advanced or developer-level proficiency in Simulink and MATLAB
* Experience in designing, testing and flying aerospace guidance and control systems for rockets, missiles, and aerodynamic reentry systems
* Highly organized and capable of planning and guiding complex technical work
* Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills
* Highly organized and capable of planning and guiding complex technical work
* Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills
* Excellent problem solving skills
* Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Desired

* M.S. or Ph.D. in aerospace, electrical, mechanical, or related engineering with 10+ years of experience
* Solid system engineering and configuration management skills
* Demonstrated knowledge in both classical and modern control design techniques
* Demonstrated knowledge in applied optimal control and estimation (e.g. Kalman Filtering)
* Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing and test development
* Good system engineering and configuration management skills
* Experience with rockets, missiles or other aerospace vehicle systems

Blue Origin offers a phenomenal work environment and awesome culture with competitive compensation, benefits, 401K, and relocation.

Blue Origin is an equal opportunity employer. In addition to EEO being the law, it is a policy that is fully consistent with Blue's principles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy or age. Blue Origin prohibits any form of workplace harassment.