Jobs at Blue Origin

Lead and coordinate spacecraft Transfer Stage integration across engineering, supply chain, and operations. Plan design release, manage BOM/MRP demand, track engineering release dates, develop procurement packages, interface with NASA, mitigate risks, and report program metrics to enable timely build and delivery.

Develops and enforces quality processes for rocket engine design, testing, and production. Analyzes manufacturing and inspection data using Python, SQL, and AI tools; reviews build and nonconformance records; conducts AS9100 audits; supports design reviews, root cause analysis, manufacturability improvements, training, and quality performance initiatives.

Develop routing, topology management, fast reroute, SDN control planes, self-healing network logic, observability, and packet-forwarding solutions for TeraWave’s multi-orbit satellite communications network. Collaborate with principal engineers and RF and Silicon teams on traffic management, resilience, mobility, latency, and throughput. Mentor junior engineers and support mission-critical production systems.

Leads New Glenn ground systems certification for National Security Space Launch and NASA missions. Responsibilities include interpreting customer requirements, coordinating engineering and launch operations teams, managing program resources, schedules, and budgets, leading customer-facing technical reviews, developing certification and verification plans, and reporting readiness and escalations to leadership. The role requires systems engineering expertise, aerospace program experience, government customer engagement, and domestic and international travel.

Owns end-to-end technical projects supporting New Glenn vehicle certification for NSSL and NASA missions. Responsibilities include developing schedules, work breakdown structures, resource plans, risk registers, budgets, and readiness reporting; coordinating manufacturing, testing, supplier, engineering, and government stakeholders; leading customer-facing reviews and audits; and managing vehicle pedigree data and certification deliverables.

Leads program quality activities across product development, testing, manufacturing, and production readiness. Develops quality plans and processes, tracks metrics and risks, communicates readiness to leadership, and drives corrective actions and continuous improvement. Partners across engineering, manufacturing, testing, supply chain, and program management to ensure quality requirements are integrated and achieved throughout the product lifecycle.

Own technical project management for New Glenn launch vehicle work centers, guiding products from design through sustained production. Manage cost, schedules, WBS, resources, risks, tooling, procurement, suppliers, production readiness, and executive reporting. Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and program stakeholders while supporting hardware builds, risk mitigation, and transition from concept to development and production.

Support New Glenn flight safety regulatory compliance and approvals with the FAA and U.S. Space Force Range Safety. Conduct trajectory analysis, debris risk assessment, probability-of-failure modeling, and population risk evaluations. Develop technical reports, manage safety products, coordinate with government partners, and balance mission design parameters against safety criteria.

Lead thermo-mechanical modeling of large rotating propulsion hardware using 2D axisymmetric whole-engine models; predict metal temperatures, deflections, clearances across transients; derive convective boundary conditions; perform ANSYS structural/thermal analyses; collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams; calibrate models to test data and produce operability guidance and design requirements for engine subsystems and reviews.

Develops and manages requirements for safety-critical and non-safety-critical spacecraft software supporting human-rated lunar landers. Responsibilities include cross-functional collaboration, compliance processes, technical documentation, design reviews, and supporting program risk, scheduling, and resource planning. Requires systems engineering experience with avionics or software systems, spacecraft interfaces, and requirements verification. Preferred experience includes C/C++, NASA software standards, Agile development, CI, embedded Linux, autonomy, fault management, hardware-in-the-loop labs, and spaceflight systems.

Defines autonomy behaviors and software requirements for lunar spacecraft systems, leads software systems engineering practices, establishes verification plans and test cases, manages hardware-software integration, and ensures safety-critical software behavior supports safe missions. Collaborates with systems engineers, developers, program managers, and vehicle and mission design teams across spacecraft development and operations.

Leads software verification and test planning for lunar spacecraft systems. Develops requirements, verification plans, test cases, procedures, and scripts; guides verification best practices; manages hardware-software integration issues; collaborates across systems, software, vehicle, and mission teams; and ensures safety-critical software behavior supports safe human spaceflight.

Set up, operate, and optimize multi-axis CNC mills, lathes, grinding, and EDM equipment to produce high-precision aerospace components. Interpret complex drawings and GD&T, perform first-article machining, measurements, tool management, and process qualification. Provide manufacturability feedback to design engineering, support additive-part post-processing, evaluate production machine tools, document process data, and maintain equipment.

Perform structural dynamic analysis of New Glenn interstage separation events using LS-DYNA, develop transient models, evaluate flight hardware, support testing, document margins and requirements, conduct trade studies, and present findings. The role requires advanced analysis of high-energy separation mechanisms, collaboration with mechanical engineering teams, schedule ownership, and support for safe, repeatable human spaceflight.

Design and lay out high-reliability aerospace PCBs involving digital, analog, mixed-signal, high-speed, RF, and high-power circuits. Collaborate across engineering teams, create schematics and documentation, resolve layout issues, maintain eCAD libraries, support DFM/DFA/DFT reviews, ensure IPC and manufacturing compliance, and improve PCB development processes. Provide technical guidance, mentor junior resources, review other layout work, and contribute throughout product development and production.

Lead the strategy, development, and roadmap execution for AI, automation, and supply chain tools supporting aerospace operations. The role identifies user and business needs, evaluates digital solutions, manages iterative product delivery, improves processes and compliance, facilitates software purchases and deployment, and collaborates with engineering, operations, design, executives, and supply chain partners. Aerospace or safety-critical experience, technical leadership, human-centered design, and up to 10% domestic travel are required.

Manage fluids and propulsion development projects for Blue Origin’s lunar landers. Responsibilities include building schedules and work breakdowns, coordinating design, manufacturing, and vehicle integration activities, tracking risks, costs, technical performance, and drawing releases, and presenting status and recovery plans to program leadership. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, project management planning, critical path scheduling, and integration of complex aerospace systems.

Leads mission systems engineering for complex space missions, including mission architecture, CONOPS, requirements decomposition, trade studies, interface management, verification and validation, integration and testing, and technical design reviews. Supports new product formulation, capture and proposal efforts, customer engagement, and national security space programs. Provides autonomous technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams and guides systems from concept through mission execution.

Leads mechanical design and packaging for phased-array antenna structures and RF payload hardware. Responsibilities include thermal management, structural and thermal analysis, tolerance stack-ups, architecture trade studies, supplier and manufacturing partner coordination, and cross-functional integration with electrical and RF teams. The role provides technical leadership across programs and mentors junior engineers while ensuring producibility and reliability of space-qualified hardware.

Develop, construct, operate, and maintain test facilities for liquid rocket engines. Create test procedures for high-pressure gas and cryogenic systems, analyze test data, procure components, manage vendors, perform maintenance and facility upgrades, and support schedule, quality, safety, and cost objectives. The role requires hands-on engineering, project leadership, emergency decision-making, and collaboration during high-consequence test operations.