Senior Structural Engineer – New Glenn

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 hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, engineers, you will design structures for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team’s impact on the design of the Stage 1 Tank. The team is hiring Structural Design Engineers at levels 2, 3 and 4 which vary in professional experience and skills. Candidates experience and qualifications will establish level. Employees will collaborate with the Manager of Mechanical, Materials & Structural Engineering within the Stage 1 Tanks team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering scope to close including planning, detailed design, engineering release, procurement, and test.

• Ownership of the entire design cycle of primary structure components, including conceptual and detailed design, trade studies, structural analysis, build, development testing, and qualification.

• Develop, release, and maintain a full CAD and drawing engineering definition package.

• Support procurement activities to support vehicle build schedules.

• Support integrated test objectives, data review, and reporting.

• Perform or facilitate emergent analysis for non-conformances.

• Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.

• Work with multi-functional teams across multiple work sites that include design, analysis, materials, processes, structures, fluids, systems, procurement, and manufacturing.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. degree or higher in mechanical, structural, or other relevant engineering field.

• 5-10+ years in professional engineering experience.

• Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials, stress/strain, statics, and finite element analysis.

• Experience with large primary or secondary structures.

• Experience with material selection, compatibility, and metallic manufacturing techniques & product forms (e.g. sheet metal, machining, etc).

• Familiarity with tolerance, GD&T and design for manufacturability.

• Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D CAD software.

• Strong product data management (PDM) skills (e.g. Windchill, TeamCenter, etc).

• Hands on experience with hardware “on the production floor” and/or “in service”

• Ability to travel 0%-20% of the year to Suppliers and Manufacturing Facility in FL to support manufacturing as needed.

• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion.

• 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:

• Ability to work independently driving engineering from conceptual to released engineering and flight hardware.

• Experience designing for manufacturability and value engineering, with focus on cost reduction and build time hour optimization.

• Experience with FEA analysis codes: Nastran, ANSYS, Optistruct, LS/Dyna.

• Familiarity with buckling, fatigue and/or fracture failure modes

• Familiarity with Microsoft Project or another equivalent schedule software

• Familiarity with budget management

• Experience in risk management and consolidation of technical data for presentation to senior leadership.

 

Compensation Range for:

WA applicants is $136,467.00-$191,053.80

Other site ranges may differ

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

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