Guidance – Early Career – Navigation & Control Engineer I
| Company | Blue Origin |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Merritt Island, FL, USA, Denver, CO, USA, Huntsville, AL, USA, Van Horn, TX, USA |
| Salary | $78153 – $119361 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad |
Requirements
- 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.
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in physics, aerospace engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or other relevant engineering field.
- Will have earned their degree within the last year and able to start by Fall 2025.
- Demonstrated knowledge in designing and testing control systems for aerospace vehicles or mechanical and fluidic subsystems.
- Fundamental understanding of dynamics, orbital mechanics, estimation, and control theory.
- Practical experience in guidance, navigation, and controls algorithm development and analysis for aerospace or mobile robotic applications.
- Strong software and model development skills, particularly in MATLAB/Simulink and C/C++.
- Relevant internship/co-op and/or hands-on experience that demonstrate development of both technical skills as well as leadership qualities.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team on rapid development programs.
- Flexible and adaptable mindset.
- Self-driven with the ability to seek out requirements with minimal direction.
Responsibilities
- Your projects may include guidance, navigation, controls, autonomy, avionics, simulation, mission design, trajectory optimization, system test, aero sciences, mission design, trajectory optimization, and systems engineering.
- Design, analyze, and verify guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) software for spaceflight systems.
- Build on our existing human-rated GN&C software to improve reliability, enable capabilities, and reduce operating cost.
- Perform system analyses, including simulations and Monte-Carlo, to satisfy specifications and requirements and to drive system-level architectural decisions.
- Specific duties are subject to our business unit objectives.
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. degree or PhD in physics, aerospace engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or another relevant STEM field.
- Knowledge of multi-body dynamics, flexible body dynamics, gas and fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.
- Experience with modeling electro-mechanical, hydraulic and electrical subsystems.
- Experience anchoring/fitting first principles models to test data or high-fidelity external simulations using system identification or other numerical methods.
- Experience developing and verifying physical models for the purpose of control design, component sizing, and system performance evaluation.
- Experience with Monte Carlo simulation testing.
- Experience supporting flight testing or launch operations.
- Experience supporting component level testing and/or flight testing.
- Ability to continuously manage risk and become comfortable with lean software development techniques.
- Proven system engineering, configuration management skills.
- Experience with Python and Linux environments.