As a member of the Blue Origin family of companies, Honeybee Robotics designs and builds robotics to explore and utilize space. Founded in 1983, we received our first NASA contract in 1986. Since then, we've pushed technical boundaries to pursue bold, audacious ideas on critical missions. We're looking for technically brilliant people in engineering, software, and various support fields who take ownership of their work, enjoy collaborating in teams, and have a laser focus on the details that drive excellence.
Job Description
Honeybee Robotics is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the development and verification of custom mechanisms and electromechanical subsystems for spaceflight applications.
Responsibilities:

• Understand the voice of the customer and continually inject that vision into the product development effort.
• Develop conceptual designs and work plans for new product development, including estimation of resources required.
• Perform top-level architectural design and preliminary analysis/sizing of spaceflight electromechanical hardware.
• Act as the primary interface between mechanical and electrical engineering teams.
• Analyze and define product functional requirements.
• Analyze and define subsystem requirements, including mechanical, electronic, embedded systems and software, etc.
• Own product functional and validation requirements.
• Perform hazards and risk analysis and develop mitigation strategies.
• Apply engineering principles to and directly participate in the design, fabrication, assembly, and test of various mechatronic systems.
• Generate and review fabrication, test, and quality assurance documentation and vendor specifications.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of post-grad experience developing custom mechatronic products.
• Experience with rapid prototyping methods, including hardware & software for fast proof-of-concept development.
• Experience writing and maintaining design and test quality assurance documentation.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with all phases of development, including requirements analysis, prototype design, product design, assembly, debugging, and testing.
• Expert in CAD (e.g., Solidworks or equivalent).
• Excellent intra-team and client-facing collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of product development team leadership experience.

Compensation:
Salary range: $146,000 - $190,000 per year. Salary is determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Benefits:
Employee Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability, and 401(k) with up to 4.5% company match.
Paid Time Off includes up to 4 weeks per year, paid sick leave, and 13 holidays.
Applicants for employment at Honeybee Robotics, LLC 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.
Honeybee Robotics, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.