Principal SEIT - Integrated Space Vehicle (Top Secret Clearance required)

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!  

The role is part of the In-Space Systems business unit, which is focused on addressing two of the most compelling challenges in spaceflight today: space infrastructure and increasing mobility on-orbit.

As part of a hardworking team of engineers, you will provide leadership across the space vehicle organization, working with the team to integrate core bus capabilities with a wide variety of customer payloads and missions. You will be responsible for the full systems engineering lifecycle, culminating in delivery of a fully verified space vehicle for integration with ground and launch systems.

We’re in search of someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality; to join our team and positively impact the future of space. Passion for our mission and vision is required. Successful candidates will have a technical background, be detail driven, and have excellent problem-solving abilities. You should be passionate about delivering extensible, timely solutions while contributing to the development of high-performance teams through meticulous goal-setting, disciplined attention to performance metrics, and continuous process improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Primary technical lead for delivery of an integrated-vehicle solution, including integrated bus and hosted or separable payloads
• Work across Bus and Payload organizations to lead the full-lifecycle of vehicle development, ensuring coordination in design, implementation, build, and test of the vehicle solution
• Responsible for leading the technical vehicle level performance metrics and modeling to support environmental qualification
• Own delivery of technical data products to customers, as well as internal and external partners
• Develop and mature the “space” portion of space to ground interface, and work with ground and end-to-end engineering to meet interface requirements

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 10% of the time

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related technical subject area
• 15+ years of technical experience developing advanced space solutions
• Strong background developing space vehicle requirements, and interface definitions, test planning, and system verification
• Demonstrated experience leading vehicle integration and verification activities
• Expertise in vehicle level performance and environmental compliance analysis
• Experience in mission design lifecycle from conceptualization through operational flight
• Outstanding customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with efficient solutions.
• Active Top Secret clearance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to earn trust and maintain positive and professional relationships

Desired Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related technical subject area
• Multiple spacecraft missions of operational ground navigation support and/or leadership
• Applied expertise in ground-based satellite navigation and statistical orbit determination processes, including radiometric and GPS.
• Experience with electric propulsion satellite missions and/or GPS commercial satellite missions 
• Familiarity with Integration floor and knowledge of production quality control
• Experience handling parts control for government customers

 

Compensation Range for:

WA applicants is $164,682.00-$230,554.80

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

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