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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Hardware Engineer - TeraWave Network Switch Platform - **Company:** Blue Origin - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $183,193.0 - $256,470.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Altium Designer, Biometrics, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Device Drivers, Microprocessors, Ethernet, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, CPU Design, Routing, Reduced Instruction Set Computing, Systems Integration, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Virtual Local Area Networks, Network Switches, Serial Peripheral Interface, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Hardware Testing, Yield Optimization, Ripple (payment Protocol) - **Published:** May 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/job/Greater-Seattle-Area/Principal-Hardware-Engineer---TeraWave-Network-Switch-Platform_R64811-1 ## About the Role * 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 record of 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; proficiency in 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 hardware including DFM/DFT practices, supply chain coordination, and yield optimization. * Hands-on environmental qualification testing (TVAC, vibration, EMI/EMC). ## Description Embedded Management & Microprocessor Architecture * Architect BMC subsystems using MPSoC, ARM, or RISC-V microprocessors to monitor line 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 firmware reprogrammability via 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 to eliminate single 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 - grounding architecture, 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: stackup definition, 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. 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