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Blue Origin, LLC Propulsion Module Avionics Manager, Command And Control in Denver, Colorado
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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!
This role is part of the New Shepard program. New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Karman line - the internationally recognized boundary of space. Through operational reusability, New Shepard supports our mission of lowering the cost of access to space.
Join Blue Origin as the Avionics Manager, Command and Control, leading a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers committed to a culture of safety. This role directly impacts the history of human space exploration by ensuring the detailed attention required for safe and repeatable space flight. Contribute to lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions living and working in space for the benefit of Eart
You will lead, mentor, and manage the Avionics Command and Control engineering design team. You must be a doer, 'not my job' is not in your vocabulary. You can identify problems, their root cause, and do not stop until there is a solution in place. As you mentor and grow your team through delegation of responsibilities and challenges proportional to their capabilities and growth potential. You foster a collaborative and inclusive culture while never compromising on accountability for execution.
You will guide the team through system architectural decisions, requirements derivation, and system performance modeling for the 4.3 block upgrade. You will closely coordinate with manufacturing and integration support to ultimately deliver a performant system on time, on budget. Concurrently, you will be the accountable party for assessing flight readiness of the command and control elements for fielded 4.2 vehicles, conducting verification audits of components , and execute component and subsystem-level testing, planning, execution, failure analysis and resolution, data reduction, and system analysis. To achieve this, you will plan hiring needs of your team, and subsequently hire the best team to mee
You will align your command and control architecture to a development plan that matches program budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness. You are accountable for the creation and maintenance of detailed schedules for your team's work, allocation of team resources to the program plan, ensuring timely delivery of milestones. Finally, you clearly provide detailed progress reports to senior leadership, stakeholders, and customers.
Minimum Qualifications:
B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
8+ years of proven experience in launch vehicle, aerospace, aviation, or automotive development.
Demonstrated expertise in instrumentation,... For full info follow application link.
To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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