Jobs at Blue Origin

Leads an instrumentation and controls technician team supporting aerospace launch and test operations. Responsibilities include planning work, supervising installation and troubleshooting, commissioning systems, ensuring safety and quality compliance, providing technical support, coaching employees, hiring and training staff, communicating risks, forecasting resources, and driving continuous improvement. The role requires hands-on work in industrial and hazardous environments, support for nonstandard hours, and occasional travel to other sites.

Lead greenfield technical projects from concept through delivery, establishing schedules, budgets, staffing plans, governance, metrics, and reporting. Coordinate cross-functional teams, facilities, suppliers, and manufacturing stakeholders across multiple sites. Manage scope, cost, risk, configuration, change control, critical paths, commissioning, and operational handoff. Build recovery plans, support safety and quality compliance, and apply AI-enabled tools to improve planning, analysis, reporting, and execution.

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.

Leads electrical and avionics hardware design for reusable rocket engines, directing a small technical team and making design decisions. Develops circuits, PCBs, and rugged assemblies from requirements through production release, including prototyping, testing, verification, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. Manages subsystem schedules, risk analyses, FMECA, DFx activities, anomaly reviews, and program status communications while delivering high-reliability, safety-critical aerospace hardware.

Design, analyze, and operate test systems for fluid, propulsion, mechanical, and electronic systems. Plan and execute tests, assess risks, integrate hardware into test facilities, analyze test data for requirements verification, develop test support software and equipment, and resolve test-related problems. The role requires collaboration across safety, manufacturing, operations, instrumentation, and systems engineering teams.

Design, analyze, test, and integrate fluid components, propulsion systems, and mechanical systems for reusable space vehicles. Work spans fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, structural analysis, manufacturing, materials and processes, systems testing, operations, and systems engineering. Engineers collaborate on rapid-development programs, work independently with minimal direction, and support safe, repeatable spaceflight across multiple business units and hardware locations.

Develop software across requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, quality assurance, DevOps, data analysis, and maintenance. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to support vehicle development, testing, and operations. Troubleshoot server-side and client-side issues and create efficient solutions using modern programming languages, source control, and development tools.

Early-career electrical engineers will support applied electronics, avionics, electrical systems, software, hardware-in-the-loop, controls, power, communications, testing, manufacturing, and systems engineering across Blue Origin business units. Responsibilities include troubleshooting electrical systems, interpreting engineering drawings, designing and testing hardware, supporting rapid development programs, and enforcing safety policies during test planning and operations.

Design, analyze, develop, and verify guidance, navigation, and control software for spaceflight systems. Perform simulations, Monte Carlo analyses, modeling, system testing, and system-level analysis to improve reliability and capabilities. Projects may involve autonomy, avionics, trajectory optimization, mission design, and systems engineering. Engineers collaborate across teams, manage technical risks, support testing and launch operations, and contribute to safe, repeatable spaceflight programs.

Develop, optimize, and implement manufacturing processes and systems for space hardware. Responsibilities include integrating materials and processes, production planning, quality control, precision assembly, testing, work-instruction development, tooling, process optimization, and collaboration with design and systems engineering teams. The role supports safe, efficient hardware production for testing, qualification, and flight while improving quality and reducing cost.

Leads fabrication operations teams responsible for chemical processing, surface coatings, and precision cleaning. Oversees production planning, resource allocation, budgets, quality, safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with engineering, quality, and supply chain teams to resolve manufacturing challenges, support new product introductions, and scale production. Mentors technicians, shift leaders, managers, and manufacturing personnel while monitoring performance and reporting results to senior leadership.

On-floor expert ensuring hardware is staged and delivered to point-of-use to meet production plans. Track inventory and schedules in MRP/ERP, identify at-risk hardware, drive recovery actions, coordinate cross-functionally, maintain documentation, and support daily to monthly production planning cadences to keep builds on schedule.

Build Blue Origin’s pre-silicon emulation and FPGA prototyping capability from the ground up. Define platform strategy, select hardware, develop build and release flows, and operate nightly image services. Lead FPGA implementation, RTL adaptation, timing closure, hardware-in-the-loop integration, platform debugging, capacity planning, and user support. Collaborate with DSP, RF, antenna, verification, and architecture teams to validate satellite communications hardware and scaled beamforming datapaths.

Leads technical project management for RF component development supporting lunar landers. Responsibilities include managing technical, cost, schedule, risk, requirements, procurement, supplier relationships, product roadmaps, program reviews, operating metrics, and engineering deliverables. The role coordinates RF Systems teams, IPTs, vendors, NASA, and external partners while supporting Agile planning, hardware development, testing, qualification, manufacturing, and delivery.

Design, develop, test, and integrate distributed software for global ground station operations. Build APIs, dashboards, workflow automation, monitoring, and secure interfaces for telemetry, tracking, command, and payload data systems. Conduct post-mission analytics, integrate third-party stations and customer systems, and collaborate with software, networking, and RF/DSP engineering teams to deliver reliable mission-critical infrastructure.

Designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, and tests rocket fluid systems and components, including pressurization, pneumatics, and reaction control systems. Responsibilities include thermo-fluid modeling, structural analysis, CAD and FEA, requirements definition, qualification testing, supplier and production coordination, hardware troubleshooting, and technical documentation. The role supports the GS2-4E heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle and requires expertise in cryogenic, high-pressure aerospace hardware.

Own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and continuous improvement of software products supporting aerospace manufacturing and engineering configuration management. Engage internal customers, define requirements and metrics, prioritize features, lead cross-functional teams, influence technical architecture, drive adoption, and use SQL and AI to support data-driven decisions and rapid prototyping.

Leads supplier and production inspections for PCB assemblies, electronics, and solar arrays. Develops inspection standards, work instructions, and acceptance criteria; performs first article, in-process, and final inspections; identifies and dispositions nonconformances; supports RCCA, design reviews, supplier audits, quality-system compliance, technician training, and continuous improvement. Requires up to 50% travel to supplier and production sites.

Lead continuous improvement, root cause analysis, corrective action, and Kaizen activities across aerospace production. Coach teams, define process-performance metrics, support Corrective Action Board meetings, participate in design reviews, provide quality assurance expertise, address customer quality concerns, and develop training. The role requires applying Lean, Six Sigma, statistical process control, quality management systems, and data visualization to improve safety, quality, reliability, manufacturability, and efficiency.

Manage complex aerospace projects from concept through delivery by establishing project plans, schedules, budgets, metrics, governance, and reporting. Coordinate engineering, facilities, supply chain, finance, quality, and geographically dispersed teams. Track critical paths, configuration baselines, risks, interfaces, testing, and recovery plans. Lead reviews, support supplier coordination, and apply AI-enabled tools to improve planning and execution.