Senior Payload Systems Engineer – Orbital Reef Program

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!  

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. 

This position is part of the Space Systems Development (SSD) business unit. SSD develops next-generation concepts and systems to advance our future of living and working in space sustainably. 

 
Blue Origin is seeking a new member for our team to serve as a Payload Systems Integration Engineer reporting to and accountable to the Lead Systems Engineer of the Orbital Reef Program.  As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for supporting Orbital Reef laboratory design, analysis, and payload customer processes. You will be responsible for generating requirements and verification documents, performing trade studies, and developing payloads processes from contract to customer return. You will identify innovations and efficiencies required for optimizing the payloads process for future Orbital Reef payloads customers.  The position will involve coordination with Orbital Reef Chief Scientist, Vehicle Architecture Leads, Vehicle Systems Engineers, and other representatives and stakeholders. 

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! If you’re excited by providing near-term value, solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, and completing challenging activities, please apply!  

Responsibilities: 

• Function as focal point for requirements, design, and development of Orbital Reef laboratory facilities and capabilities that will interface with future customer payloads. 

• Develop customer payload life-cycle processes, from customer contract through certification and operations to payload return to the customer. This involves activities such as development of documentation for the Orbital Reef laboratory facility, capability, and payload interface requirements (IRD, ICD, etc.), defining payload integration milestones including such as design reviews, operations reviews, flight and ground safety reviews, verification, and certification reviews.  

• Work with Orbital Reef architecture and subsystem leads to evaluate and propose edits to requirements and analyses that impact Orbital Reef laboratory facilities and interfaces to user payloads. 

• Perform thorough technical assessments of proposed internal and external payload interface requirements to understand the impacts to the