Principal Hardware Engineer - TeraWave Network Switch Platform
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Embedded Management & MicroprocessorArchitecture
- Architect BMC subsystems usingMPSoC, ARM, or RISC-V microprocessors tomonitorline card health, thermal sensors, and voltage rails.
- Design and integrate low-level communication buses (I2C, SPI,PMBus,SMBus, RS-485, CAN) for hardware telemetry and sequencing control.
- Develop hardware watchdog circuits and redundant boot sequences for fault recovery.Enable in-flight firmwarereprogrammabilityvia ground link, including secure update and rollback mechanisms.
Power Distribution & Regulation
- Architect high-reliability power distribution with autonomous sequencing, redundant paths (e.g., ORing controllers), and fault isolation toeliminatesingle points of failure.
- Specify and integrate radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant components rated for SEE and TID in the target orbital environment.
- Design power stages for thermal-vacuum operation, emphasizing high-efficiency topologies and conduction/radiation thermal transfer.
- Architect low-noise power trees using high-PSRR LDOs and multi-stage LC filtering to protect sensitive analog and high-speed digital lanes.
Signal & Power Integrity
- Lead SPICE-based transient analysis and hardware validation of load step responses, switching transients, and voltage ripple to millivolt-level tolerances.
- Develop EMI/EMC mitigation strategies - groundingarchitecture, decoupling optimization, power/signal plane isolation - to prevent crosstalk between power distribution and high-speed data paths.
Hardware Design, Integration & Test
- Lead multi-layer PCB design for switch line cards:stackupdefinition, impedance-controlled routing, thermal management, and DFM.
- Manage CCA BOM procurement, vendor coordination, and assembly oversight.
- Integrate BSPs, SDKs, and device drivers for Ethernet switching and network processor components in collaboration with firmware and software teams.
- Architect and bring up high-performance Ethernet switching systems, including NPU/switch ASIC integration, PHY and SerDes tuning, VLAN configuration, and MAC-level validation across high-density line cards.
- Resolve complex hardware-software interface issues across L1 and L2, including physical layer bring-up, transceiver integration, and MAC-level debugging.
- Lead factory acceptance testing, physical layer validation (optical transceivers, high-density copper), and commissioning of switch hardware., Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S.as a refugee or granted asylum.
Background Check
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ITAR Requirements
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on "EEO Is the Law," please see here and here.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in hardware design, power electronics, or embedded systems in a product development environment.
- Track recordof designing and shipping complex electronic products through development into production.
- Experience designing multi-layer PCBs with high-speed digital interfaces and mixed-signal power distribution;proficiencyin Altium, Cadence, or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience designing and integrating high-speed Ethernet switch hardware, including network processors (NPUs), SerDes interfaces, and optical or copper PHY technologies.
- Strong knowledge of power supply design (DC-DC converters, LDOs, sequencing, transient analysis) with hands-on SPICE simulation experience.
- Experience with embedded microprocessor design (ARM, RISC-V, or similar) including BSP integration and peripheral bus bring-up (I2C, SPI, UART, CAN).
- Practical EMI/EMC mitigation and signal/power integrity analysis experience.
- Excellent technical documentation and communication skills., * Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- 15+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience with radiation effects on electronics (SEE, TID, displacement damage) and mitigation techniques.
- Experience designing electronics for space, aviation, or other high-reliability thermal-vacuum environments.
- Experience with FPGA or ASIC integration in board management or data-path contexts.
- Background in production hardwareincludingDFM/DFT practices, supply chain coordination, and yield optimization.
- Hands-on environmental qualification testing (TVAC, vibration, EMI/EMC).
Benefits & conditions
- Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.