At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

 

As part of a small team, you will work on launch vehicles, space vehicles, and launch facility systems for the New Glenn Program. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

 

You will work across subsystems and support integrated solutions to achieve our vision of “millions of people living and working in space” Apply system engineering practices across subject areas predicated to a high degree on your technical skills, support the development of system engineering processes for the program, ensure consistent implementations across the program, and serve in a system integration capacity working with multi-discipline teams to arrive at technical system solutions. You will also support the development, allocation, and verification of requirements at all levels of the program using tools like DOORS Next Gen, system lifecycle configuration management tools, and other functional analysis toolsets.

 

Additionally, this role requires understanding and supporting requirements analysis and traceability, functional analysis, systems analysis, safety analysis, technical performance monitoring, and developing strategies and approaches for specialty engineering (operability, reliability, maintainability, supportability), and system product life cycle processes. You will also support the alignment and consistent implementation of New Glenn system engineering practices for system to lower-level program tiers as well as across program systems. You will also help develop health metrics to support insight into program health and supervise major milestones. You will also participate in gated reviews. You should be able to understand and document system behaviors with architecture.

 

Responsibilities:

• The Operational Integrator is responsible for ensuring the launch vehicle, ground equipment, and personnel are ready for operation for all phases of the New Glenn Stage 1 mission including pre-launch, boost, landing, and recovery.  OIs are responsible for the following work for their assigned scope: Engineering Operational Requirements (EORs), Maintenance Requirements (MRs), Launch Commit Criteria, Required Equipment List (REL), and alerts.  OIs also provide operational guidance to support the following products: Timeline databooks, Catastrophic Command Evaluation, Health Reporting, and Loss of COMM's behavior.
• Author operations documents that define product testing requirements, operations lifecycle, maintenance requirements, and critical performance/requirements interfaces across the system
• Serve as primary subsystem engineering/technical POC for systems engineering and systems safety artifacts.
• Provide operational feedback to subsystem designers and support operational analysis.
• Lead design integration trade studies considering vehicle operations through all phases of the mission including pre-launch, boost, landing, and recovery.
• Provide program support to the chief engineer office for delegated engineering change requests, design review actions, performance metrics/assessment, and technical risk management.
• Document and manage critical performance, operational requirements, and requirements interfaces across the system.
• Support development of coordinated operational software, including those used for Built-In-Tests, Propellant Loading, Terminal Count, Flight, Landing, and Post-Flight Recovery
• Support integrated functional teams to define operations for all phases of the New Glenn Stage 1 mission including pre-launch, boost, landing, and recovery.
• Provide real-time support to coordinated tests and launch operations.
• Review and approve operating requirements across subsystems.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and appropriate integration of operating requirements into procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering or another technical field
• 6+ years of proven experience
• Experience with system engineering principles
• Experience in at least one of the areas of analysis, design, or integrated testing
• Experience in at least one of the focused subject areas of fluids, thermal, propulsion, avionics or electrical hardware and/or software, telemetry/communications, structures, ground operations, or flight/ground autonomy
• Possess skills in strategic system thinking, excellent written and oral communication skills, and proactive in moving the program forward through team teamworks to achieve timely decisions
• ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive culture.
• 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

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Launch vehicle experience, and experience with propulsion, fluids, mechanical systems, and structures/tanks a plus
• System development/integration experience, preferably with aerospace hardware
• Knowledge of current systems engineering and integration tools and methodologies
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as DOORS Next Gen
• Experience in reliability, maintainability, and operability analysis and execution

 

Compensation Range for:

WA applicants is $120,060.00-$168,084.00

Other site ranges may differ

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

Inclusivity Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? 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 desired 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.

Benefits

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.

Paid Time Off:  Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

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