Electronics Engineer jobs in Tacoma, WA

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

We are a diverse 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.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers (use as appropriate), you willl apply standard engineering techniques to research, develop design, analyze, and test electrical components, equipment, software systems, and networks. Responsible for the release to production of the electronic subsystems used to monitor, communicate with, and control launch vehicles, spacecraft, satellites, and their ground support systems.

Our mission is to produce the infrastructure vital to ultimately support millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. At Blue Origin, we recognize that manufacturing, and especially additive manufacturing, is a key ingredient in realizing that goal. As a member of a select, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will be designing, building, and maintaining integrated control systems which form the basis for custom machinery used to additively manufacture critical spaceflight components. Numerous process controls are required for additive manufacturing, as well as especially high levels of machine, subsystem, and component reliability and process stability. Your technical expertise, engineering attitude, work ethic, dedication to quality, and passion for Blue Origin’s mission will all be applied to building and maintaining such integrated control systems.

In this role, you will directly contribute to the realization of reusable, safe, and accessible spaceflight by enabling the additive manufacturing of many of the most critical components required for it. 

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 0% of the time

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build and maintain both electrical schematics and P&ID drawings
• Build and maintain drawings of the electrical cabinet layout and critical cable/ wire routings
• Perform PLC software development and maintenance for numerous subsystems:
• fluid / gas flow and pressure
• material handling
• motion control
• temperature control
• machine / process diagnostics
• data / error logging
• human / machine interface
• safety logic
• Work with internal and outsourced electricians for electrical cabinet assembly
• Configure and maintain fieldbuses and fieldbus devices
• Select, implement, and tune appropriately sized servo motors and drives as needed
• Select and implement the sensors and actuators required to support machine operation
• Verify that the machine and control system adhere to safety regulations and recommendations
• Maintain tight version control of drawings, source code, and machine configurations
• Plan and manage work in accordance with team and company goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of five years of experience with machine tool automation and industrial controls

• Prior experience with PLC programming and HMI design

• Prior experience creating, modifying, and delivering electrical schematics and P&ID drawings

• Prior experience with industrial control networks (EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP)

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

• Prior experience designing and/or building custom and/or commercial machinery

• Prior education or experience related to Control Theory and its applications

• Prior experience implementing control solutions based on Beckhoff products / toolsets

• Prior experience working with industrial lasers and/or supporting additive manufacturing

• Prior experience working to best practices of NFPA 70 and NFPA 79