Avionics Development Lead

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed. 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! This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable. We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

The New Glenn rocket is Blue Origin's low cost access to space for payloads. It continues to evolve and improve to attain our mission. As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers the New Glenn Avionics Development Leader position is crucial to identifying and advancing new products and integrating new architectures into new vehicles/products. The Avionics Development organization is responsible to manage the new product introduction lifecycle for avionics (e.g. proposals, architectures, execution, and transfer to operations). Cost, schedule, technical, safety, and overall performance parameters are managed under this role.

Special Mentions

• Travel expected up to 25% of the time (nationwide)
• Interviews will include a technical assessment

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Directly support the Senior Director of Avionics Development in strategy and execution tasks across the new development team
• Build Single Threaded Leaders that can be applied to New Glenn Dev programs that successfully manage the cost, schedule, technical, safety, and risk aspects of avionics programs.
• Developing a lifecycle execution scheme for LRU New Product Introduction that reaches design cycle time goals with quality products
• Provide technical expertise of avionics designs as technical reviewer / leader during design deep dives, interim design reviews, critical design reviews, and architectural decision meetings.
• Managing cost, schedule, technical, risk and safety for all new avionic development programs
• Integrating the avionics architectures into each system (e.g. running architecture decision meetings, channelization of vehicles, cross-discipline solutions)
• Establishing procurement streams that fulfill the development part needs of New Glenn Avionics and ensure Supply

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