Sr. Control Systems Engineer
Blue Origin4 days ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define motor and antenna pointing control requirements and architectures, including torque, speed, resolution, bandwidth, and gimbal control.
- Design and tune control loops, feedforward, filtering, and compensation for friction, backlash, and structural modes.
- Develop program-track, RF closed-loop tracking, and fast-slew algorithms.
- Build MATLAB/Simulink models and simulations of motor, gimbal, and antenna dynamics and own the pointing error budget.
- Implement control algorithms in embedded C/C++ or auto-generated code and integrate them with motor-drive electronics and flight software.
- Plan and execute laboratory, hardware-in-the-loop, and environmental tests, supporting on-orbit commissioning and calibration.
- Collaborate with mechanisms, RF, GNC, avionics, flight software, hardware teams, and suppliers on requirements and interfaces.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of experience developing control, estimation, or tracking algorithms and deploying them in production software for real-time or embedded systems.
- Strong knowledge of control theory and digital signal processing, including discrete-time control, filtering, stability analysis, and numerical methods.
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded or real-time software, including deterministic timing and fixed-point and floating-point considerations.
- Experience modeling and simulating dynamic systems using MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or similar tools.
- Experience with version control, code review, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD.
- Preferred: master’s degree or PhD focused on controls, estimation, autonomy, robotics, or a related field.
- Preferred: experience with flight or safety-critical software, spacecraft gimbals, antenna pointing, attitude control, RF tracking, Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, model-based design, automatic code generation, RTOS, embedded Linux, bare-metal programming, SPI, CAN, RS-422, SIL/HIL testing, motor control, field-oriented control, encoder processing, and motor-drive electronics.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) matching of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for discretionary benefits and bonuses.
About Blue Origin
Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.