Senior Systems Engineer - New Glenn Components

Application close date:

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

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 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 hardworking team of engineers, specialists, and technicians, you will work on systems engineering for the New Glenn Valves, Actuators, and Components Technology group. Your activities may include engagement in conducting trade studies, developing margins for allocations, risk management, gated reviews, system safety analysis, technical performance management, configuration and data management, payload integration, and regulatory compliance.

You will be the authority on all aspects of your component’s product lifecycle through initial concepts, detail design, requirements definition, testing, verification, and validation activities. You will collaborate with the stage-level systems engineers and ensure that our customers are provided with a high quality, cost effective, and robust component solution that meets their needs.

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!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Both Lead and Support systems engineering activities for multiple component projects on the team.
• Develop and implement team level processes and best practices for Systems Engineering management.
• Requirements authoring, decomposition, analysis, traceability, and verification
• Negotiate interfaces and coordinate between internal and external stakeholders
• Develop and implement verification plans and strategies to complete verification of requirements
• Define operational constraints for the end-to-end safe handling and successful operation of the subsystem
• Lead gated reviews and support New Glenn program and element level gated reviews.
• Author and maintain system safety documentation such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA); Architecture Safety Assessments (ASA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), and Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECAs)
• Collaborate with integrated test, launch operations, and autonomous flight operations customer teams to incorporate operational constraints into downstream procedures and flight plans

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering or other technical field
• 7+ years of current technical hands-on experience
• Hands-on experience in developing, authoring, and implementing requirements
• A passion for understanding the bigger picture
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in teams as well as lead through influence
• Experience in system engineering on launch vehicles, spacecraft, or in other highly regulated industries
• Experience writing or consuming requirements
• Ability to operate, make decisions, lead, and make forward progress in ambiguous environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with system safety
• Experience with pneumatic, cryogenic, electro mechanical, or similar component level hardware.
• System integration experience, preferably with aerospace hardware
• Knowledge of current systems engineering processes and methodologies
• Experience with DOORS Next Generation or equivalent requirements management software
• Experience in reliability, maintainability and operability analysis and execution
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA

 

Compensation Range for:

CO applicants is $133,500.00 - $186,898.95 WA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20

Other site ranges may differ

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