BLUE ORIGIN

Systems Engineer

• Work with team leadership and support the development of robust plans of product deliveries and lead tracking of key operating metrics
• Identify and define problem statements and have enough experience to build and support a realistic project schedule
• Understand critical path and variance drivers and work to reconcile
• Support management of budget across all control points including driving estimate to complete assessments
• Coordinate efforts across the product team comprised of engineering, program planning & control, supply chain, manufacturing/production engineering, facilities, production, tooling, quality, and test
• Support purchase orders, contracts, and service level work agreements aligned with program resources
• Understand and drive linkage between Material Requirements Planning system and IMS
• Support planning of technical efforts via agile concepts leveraging company tools
• Enable and maintain regular business rhythm, action tracking, and consolidate information for effective decision making

SLD Thermal System Engineering Operations Lead

Engineer

• Collaborate with applications engineers in the development of conceptual automated manufacturing equipment, providing controls architecture input and feedback from concept through detailed design
• Design control system architectures including network topology, I/O distribution, safety systems, and communication protocols
• Lead industrial controls and electrical design of bespoke automation systems
• Develop offline simulations of automated systems — ranging from discrete work cells to fully automated product lines — to validate control logic, robot paths, cycle times, and system behavior from concept through final design, including pre-programming and virtual commissioning prior to hardware availability
• Transition from offline development to online debugging and commissioning of PLC, HMI, robot, and similar industrial controls programs from scratch
• Integrate auxiliary equipment, machines, and tools into unified control systems
• Work with panel fabricators and field installation teams; provide technical support during system integration and commissioning
• Lead factory and site acceptance testing
• Lead the build, installation, commissioning, and start-up of automated manufacturing systems
• Create and deliver controls documentation packages including sequence of operations, I/O lists, network diagrams, and program documentation

Senior Automation Controls Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, develop, integrate, and test embedded flight software for the Blue Ring spacecraft, including hardware interface layers
• Implement software requirements derived from system-level specifications, ensuring traceability throughout the software development lifecycle
• Develop and execute software unit tests, integration tests, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test procedures to verify software functionality and performance
• Collaborate closely with avionics, systems, and propulsion engineers to define software interfaces and resolve cross-discipline technical issues
• Participate in software design reviews, code reviews, and technical peer reviews to ensure quality and adherence to coding standards
• Debug and troubleshoot complex software and hardware/software integration issues in a lab and test environment.

Embedded Software Engineer II

Architect

• Develop models and algorithm for the Terawave Custom Silicon, this includes packet processing, MAC, PHY, Radio DSP
• Drive for lowest power consumption and highest performance
• Target your algorithms for FPGA and ASIC implementation
• Support the ASIC implementation thru Pre-silicon verification
• Design advanced Digital end to end communication systems
• Develop and model Channel impairments models
• Work collaboratively with ASIC, RFIC and SW implementation teams
• Work with the application team to bring up prototype pre-silicon and support all post-silicon to validate your architecture performance

Senior Comsys and DSP Architect

• Develop and maintain system-level requirements for advanced space-based sensing systems, ensuring traceability from mission objectives through subsystem specifications
• Conduct architecture trade studies to evaluate design alternatives, performance margins, and technical feasibility across competing system concepts
• Author and review key systems engineering artifacts including Concepts of Operations (CONOPs), System Requirements Documents (SRDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including payload, spacecraft bus, ground systems, and mission operations to ensure end-to-end system coherence and performance closure
• Support design review cycles and provide technical inputs to program milestones and decision gates
• Perform RF system performance assessments, link budget analyses, and system-level sensitivity studies relevant to space-based sensing architectures
• Engage with government customers and mission partners to understand operational needs and translate them into actionable system requirements and performance specifications
• Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical performance measurement (TPM) tracking throughout the program lifecycle
• Contribute to the development of program-level technical documentation, white papers, and briefings for internal and external stakeholders

Systems Engineer III – Remote Sensing Systems Architecture

• Design and develop scalable reporting, dashboards and RESTful services using Python, Typescript, SQL, and other tools
• Participate in the development of automated processes to integrate disparate systems to generate engineering level reporting suitable for engineers and decision makers of different backgrounds
• Develop analytical data models that support standardized metrics
• Develop and maintain documentation, run books, data dictionaries and guides
• Work with partners and domain specialists to generate reporting, application, and integration requirements
• Maintain day-to-day workflow and communication with a variety of partners across the company

Software Engineer II

• Lead the development of high-power, narrow-linewidth fiber amplifiers for spectral beam combining (SBC) and advanced photonics applications.
• Develop proof-of-concept fiber amplifier designs for cutting-edge free-space optical and advanced laser systems.
• Support the design, fabrication, test, and characterization of prototype high-power fiber amplifier hardware.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team on thermal management, optical packaging, beam quality optimization, and automation of high-power fiber amplifier subsystems.
• Interface with Supply Chain to identify and qualify suppliers for specialty optical components (pump diodes, gain fiber, fiber components, end caps, etc.) and support cost optimization.
• Conduct engineering analysis and trade studies across amplifier architectures, power scaling approaches, and make/buy decisions.
• Support vendor outreach and technical evaluation, including engagements with national labs and specialty optics suppliers.
• Communicate technical updates and design decisions to cross-functional teams and program leadership.

Senior Optical Amplifier Engineer – Advanced Photonics Systems

• Design and execute critical maneuvers during flight operations with real-time decision making.
• Develop navigation rehearsal processes, day-in-the-life ops simulations, console logs, and facilitate the integration of flight dynamics software.
• Automate astrodynamics operations processes to the limits that are possible as Blue Ring grows into fleet-wide operations.
• Work closely with mission planners, flight operations stakeholders, payload customers, systems engineers, and vehicle engineers.
• Perform flight dynamics algorithm development as needed, aid in its implementation into the Flight Dynamics software system, and understand its execution in the operational ground system.
• Present results and support critical design reviews using Agile development methodologies.
• Perform mission analysis ensuring robust mission performance across multiple operational scenarios.
• Communicate effectively with the distributed team of flight operations engineers.

Lead Engineer, Astrodynamics Operations

Supply Chain

• Lead efforts to develop and execute the strategic supply chain vision for your responsible subsystem in support of the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle.
• Interact with customers, engineering and operations, to address concerns and ensure development efforts and deliveries are on track.
• Manage and execute the material program strategy and the material program plan to ensure program competitiveness and performance from the front end of the business through fulfillment.
• Ensure the placement and receipt of all material requirements to meet those strategies and plans in support of program requirements including complete material management and ownership.
• Negotiate contracts and ensure supply chain competitiveness and performance throughout the lifecycle of the Program.
• Overall ownership of the supplier management process and communication of customer flow-through requirements to ensure that supplier performance exceeds mission objectives.

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Operations

• Manage a team of System Operational Architects responsible for developing a detailed operational architecture, sequence of operations, trade study generation, Engineering Operations Requirements (EORs), Maintenance Requirements (MRs), Launch Commit Criteria (LCC), and operational improvements to increase the launch cadence of New Glenn.
• Author documents that define the system operational architecture, operations and control rationale, maintenance requirements, and critical cross element performance or interface requirements.
• Serve as primary engineering POC for CONOP development through all phases of operations, acting as cross element interface for design engineering and operations.
• Assess, identify, and lead any fixes to gaps in the concept of vehicle operations and recovery.
• Lead cross element design trade studies considering launch operations through all phases the mission including pre-launch, landing, and recovery.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and appropriate integration of operating requirements into procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.
• Provide real-time support to integrated tests and launch operations.
• Review and approve procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.
• Work with operations and design engineering to ensure development of the launch vehicle maintainability, and serviceability throughout all phases of mission operations and recovery/refurb.

Senior Manager – System Operations Architecture

Solutions Engineer

• Supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to Earth’s orbit and beyond.
• Work on launch vehicles, space vehicles, and launch facility systems for the New Glenn Program, focusing on system integration.
• Support system engineering practices across disciplines, verifying requirements using tools like DOORS Next Gen and other functional analysis toolsets.
• Carry out systems engineering activities in accordance with system engineering standards and practices, tailoring processes to complete tasks assigned.
• Participate in gated reviews, identify, analyze, and resolve system discrepancies, and provide support for the Element Lead.

Systems Engineering & Integration Engineer II

• Serve as the senior technical authority for space system architecture within the Special Programs organization, providing vision and direction for mission-driven system concepts
• Lead end-to-end architecture definition for advanced space-based sensing systems, from mission concept formulation through preliminary design, ensuring alignment with customer objectives and operational requirements
• Drive system-level trade space exploration across competing architectures, evaluating performance, cost, schedule, and risk to inform program decisions at the highest levels
• Develop and own the overarching system architecture baseline, including CONOPs, system-level requirements, interface definitions, and key performance parameters (KPPs)
• Provide authoritative technical guidance on RF system design, sensing system performance, and space segment architecture to program teams and leadership
• Lead and mentor a team of systems engineers, fostering technical excellence, rigorous engineering discipline, and a culture of innovation
• Represent the program at senior-level technical reviews, customer engagements, and government forums; serve as the primary technical voice for architecture decisions
• Identify and resolve complex, cross-cutting technical challenges that span multiple subsystems and program boundaries
• Collaborate with business development and capture teams to shape new program opportunities, contribute to proposals, and define technical approaches for future missions
• Maintain awareness of the broader national security space landscape, emerging threats, and evolving customer needs to inform long-range architecture strategy
• Partner with government customers and mission partners to translate high-level operational needs into technically sound and executable system architectures

Principal Systems Architect – Remote Sensing Systems

• Develop and maintain system-level requirements for advanced space-based sensing systems
• Conduct system architecture trade studies and analyses
• Author and review key systems engineering artifacts
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end system coherence
• Support design reviews and provide technical inputs to R&D program milestones
• Perform link budget analyses and RF system performance assessments
• Study the design, analyze, and optimize UHF-band antenna systems
• Evaluate antenna integration trades including deployable structures and phased array configurations
• Engage with government customers and mission partners
• Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical performance measurement

Systems Engineer III – RF / Microwave Systems

Technical Product Manager

• Develop a multi-year product vision that shapes company objectives, secures executive buy-in, and enables Blue Origin to meet our ambitious goals for production and launch.
• Develop and manage a 12-18-month plan spanning technology areas, aligning resources, milestones, and mitigation paths while resolving cross-business conflicts.
• Drive decisions with leaders of core business functions and top executives at Blue Origin. Align resources across the company to deliver on goals.
• Deploy iterative prototyping, testing, and scaling to deliver simple, high-value solutions to complex problems, continuously validated by broad customer feedback and data.
• Influence technical decisions and end-state architectures for entire domains, evaluating emerging technologies for durable business value.
• Define and implement metrics and frameworks to guide investments and measure success of product launches. Communicate insights crisply to leadership.
• Lead strategic risk mitigation and readiness activities to ensure smooth roll-outs and measurable impact across multiple organizations.
• Utilize AI to increase the velocity of deliverables, boost productivity, and codify best practices company-wide.
• Produce high-impact narratives and reviews that drive key decisions and keep executives aligned on progress, risks, and next steps.

Principal Technical Product Manager

• Utilization of Systems Engineering, PLM, and collaboration tools such as (but not limited to) Jama, Cameo, JIRA, Confluence, Windchill, SharePoint.
• Support a broad team by leading the creation of and/or modification of analytical models.
• Perform complex integrated analysis for human spacecraft systems.
• Provide senior engineering support and technical ownership with concept of operations, requirements development, functional decomposition, system verification, validation, integration, and test.
• Lead and be technically responsible for a team of engineers.
• Apply advanced knowledge, principles, theories, and techniques to advance the program.
• Establish product and processes metrics that effectively measure and improve performance of supporting systems.
• Identify and fix gaps in existing processes, tools, infrastructure, and continually improve solutions along the way.
• Develop and implement best practices to deploy to the program.
• Develop and mature systems engineering documentation (such as, but not limited to, human rating certification plans, Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), Verification Artifacts).
• Mentorship and training of other team members.