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NI TestStand Architect

Blue Origin
United States, Washington, Seattle
September 23, 2022

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 diverse and hardworking team of engineers, you will design and deploy test systems and software for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of component, sub-assembly, and vehicle level testing. We design LabVIEW data acquisition and control systems based on NI CompactRIO, CompactDAQ, PXI, and other hardware that will test fluid, mechanical, and electrical development and flight systems of our engines and launch vehicles. Our team provides support for business units and programs across Blue Origin for critical development, qualification, and acceptance testing.

In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to build high level automation using NI TestStand into our common software architecture. This entails creating customized user interfaces, custom test steps, built in step and sequence validation, and sequence visualization. You will participate in sequence development, code reviews, craft other additions to our frameworks, and train developers in TestStand. You will create user specific software configurations, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain systems. In addition to software development, you will participate and lead in the lifecycle of new projects including requirements, design, build, commissioning, and verification of test systems. You will provide customer service, training, and documentation for our customers.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years demonstrated ability in NI TestStand development and architecture, including custom user interfaces, process model customization, custom step development, and resuable template design

  • LabVIEW or C# integration with TestStand API

  • B.S. degree in relevant engineering field

  • Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

  • Ability to travel up to 25%

  • 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

Desired:

  • LabVIEW with knowledge of object-oriented design, test automation, and software component development

  • Experience with NI Real-Time targets and software development (LinuxRT & Phar-Lap)

  • Experience with Actor Framework, unit testing, validation, code reuse, advanced architectures, hardware and software abstraction layers

  • National Instruments certification in TestStand and LabVIEW development: CTD, CTA, CLD, CLA, CLED, or Professional Instructor

  • Experience working with electrical control systems and industrial sensors and actuators: pressure, temperature, LVDT, bridge, accelerometers, and motion/servo controllers

  • Project management experience, delivering results on-time and on-budget

  • Experience working in a test environment

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

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.

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.

Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

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Benefits

Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.

Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays

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