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11/1/2026 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! Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-basedconnectivitywithTeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6Tbpsanywhere on Earth.This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise, data center, and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations. We are seeking a Sr. Electrical Engineer to own user terminal board design. This is a founding hire. The terminal architecture is still converging, and the PCB workstream is waiting on the engineer who will lead it. You would not be inheriting a design - you would be defining the schematic and layout approach for a product line that does not exist yet, working alongside RF, ASIC, and antenna engineers who are locking their own requirements in parallel. If you want a role where your first six months determine how the hardware gets built rather than how it is maintained, this is that role.
We are developing a family of terminals at different capability and cost points, so this is not a one-design job. You will carry a design from architecture through prototype bring-up, then apply what you learn to the next variant. Terminals are a mass-market product, not spacecraft hardware - build volume and unit cost are first-order design constraints, and we deliberately reach for terrestrial, COTS, and automotive-industry pricing rather than traditional aerospace pricing.
The hardest part of this problem is power and heat. mmWave phased array apertures draw substantial current across a large board area with dynamic load behavior, and the resulting power density means conventional board-level thermal approaches do not come for free. Delivering that current cleanly, and getting the heat out, will dominate the physical design and significantly influence overall terminal size and weight. This is a mixed-signal power integrity and thermal codesign problem as much as it is a high-speed digital problem.
You will sit at the boundary between the digital and RF worlds: high-speed data buses and clock distribution on one side, beamforming ICs and radiating elements on the other, with mmWave routing that cannot tolerate the noise the digital side produces. Our RF and antenna teams are in-house, so you will co-design that interface with them directly rather than across a supplier boundary.
Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Own schematic capture and layout strategy for user terminal logic boards and aperture PCBAs, from architecture through release to fabrication.
- Lead multi-layer, high-density interconnect PCB design, maintaining strict isolation between high-speed digital, IF,
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