Jobs at Blue Origin

Develop and standardize manufacturing engineering processes, documentation, workflows, and digital tools for New Glenn. Lead automation, knowledge management, dashboards, KPIs, and AI-enabled solutions to reduce non-value-added work and improve engineering productivity. Manage mBOM processes, train teams on enterprise platforms, and coordinate cross-functional continuous-improvement initiatives supporting manufacturing readiness and repeatable production.

Leads physical implementation and top-level integration of RF/mmWave, analog, and mixed-signal ICs. Responsibilities include custom layout, floorplanning, routing, ESD and DFM, physical verification, parasitic optimization, tape-out preparation, and foundry database release. The role provides technical leadership, establishes layout methodologies, mentors engineers, manages schedules and risks, and coordinates internal and external teams developing advanced communication systems.

Leads optical architecture and development for classified optical inter-satellite link terminals. Designs and integrates space-grade photonic avionics, performs optical modeling, link budgets, environmental and reliability analysis, and oversees qualification testing. Collaborates across engineering teams, suppliers, and vendors; supports design reviews, requirements verification, technical documentation, and fault analyses. Mentors junior engineers and ensures compliance with NASA, MIL-STD, and company standards.

Monitors, investigates, and responds to cyber threats across classified enclaves, mission ground systems, and laboratories. Responsibilities include SIEM and EDR alert triage, incident response, threat hunting, audit and insider-threat reviews, mission-event monitoring, sensor deployment, log onboarding, detection tuning, playbook improvement, and automation. The analyst works with senior engineers and supports national-security cyber defense operations in onsite classified environments.

Designs and industrializes manufacturing processes for aerospace launch infrastructure and vehicle systems. Responsibilities include DFM/DFA/DFT, work instructions, tooling, inspection plans, process validation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, FMEAs, quality compliance, and manufacturing efficiency improvements. The role supports systems including cryogenics, hydraulics, pneumatics, PLCs, electronics, and large structures while collaborating with design, quality, supply chain, and production teams. Requires shift flexibility and onsite work in Space Coast, Florida.

Develops and supports manufacturing of cryogenic fluid systems and propellant infrastructure for aerospace launch vehicles. Responsibilities include translating engineering drawings into hardware, creating bills of materials and work instructions, supporting production-floor integration, conducting design-for-manufacturability reviews, managing build quality and schedules, defining rework, analyzing nonconformances, and implementing corrective actions under AS9100 and cryogenic safety requirements.

Lead aerospace systems engineering and technical program activities for motion-control products. Responsibilities include architecting closed-loop control systems, developing and tracing requirements, managing technical risks, supporting verification and validation, presenting technical content, and collaborating with manufacturing, quality, and test teams. The role requires delivering functional flight hardware and supporting safe human spaceflight programs.

Leads production test strategy for RF, mmWave, and mixed-signal ASICs. Defines wafer sort and final test strategies, develops ATE tests, establishes packaged RF test approaches, and partners with design, DFT, foundry, manufacturing, and OSAT teams. The role drives test coverage, manufacturability, yield, correlation, throughput, and cost optimization while mentoring test engineers across front-end IC and digital beamformer programs.

Leads architecture, development, integration, verification, and delivery of embedded firmware for custom digital ASICs. Responsibilities span ROM and runtime firmware, hardware/software interfaces, pre-silicon simulation, post-silicon bring-up, system validation, production testing, manufacturing diagnostics, automated testing, and release management. Provides technical leadership, resolves complex integration issues, establishes engineering standards, and mentors engineers across ASIC, hardware, communications, test, and manufacturing teams.

Develops and maintains mechanical layouts, detail parts, assembly drawings, and engineering datasets for Blue Origin’s lunar spacecraft systems. Uses Creo Parametric and Windchill to support structural, mechanical, fluids, avionics, and harness designs. Applies drafting standards, GD&T, tolerance analysis, aerospace hardware selection, and manufacturing methodologies while collaborating cross-functionally on materials, processes, and production-ready designs.

Designs and leads spacecraft electrical power systems and power electronics for Blue Origin’s national security and space mobility programs. Responsibilities include EPS architecture, circuit design, power budgeting, requirements, PCB guidance, analysis, verification, qualification testing, anomaly resolution, technical reviews, program ownership, process development, and mentoring engineers. The role requires delivering high-reliability hardware through the full lifecycle and collaborating across systems, mechanical, thermal, software, and test disciplines.

Leads a manufacturing engineering team responsible for translating engineering designs into flight-ready aerospace hardware. Sets manufacturing strategy, develops processes, oversees equipment and work instructions, and manages cost, quality, schedule, and configuration control. Drives root-cause analysis, corrective actions, Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement, schedule recovery, and nonconforming hardware disposition. Partners with engineering, operations, quality, program management, supply chain, and suppliers while developing team capability and maintaining safe, repeatable production.

Design digital hardware for the TeraWave satellite communications SOC, owning modem and PHY RTL from system specifications through microarchitecture, integration, synthesis, and timing closure. Responsibilities include signal-processing hardware, Arm compute subsystem logic, AXI and SRAM integration, CoreSight debug infrastructure, GPIO, clock/reset architecture, and collaboration with verification and physical design teams to deliver production silicon.

Owns system-on-chip performance analysis for the TeraWave satellite communications program, covering pre-silicon modeling, emulation-based verification, post-silicon validation, memory bandwidth and latency, Ethernet throughput, and performance budgeting. The role establishes analysis methodology, identifies bottlenecks, validates projections against silicon results, and provides technical leadership across architecture, hardware, firmware, and software teams.

Own DFT architecture and test strategy for large multi-block TeraWave SoCs. Define scan, compression, boundary scan, test access, and BIST specifications; implement DFT infrastructure; generate and validate ATPG vectors; debug ATE pattern failures; support silicon bring-up, defect analysis, yield improvement, and test coverage reviews. Provide technical leadership across design, physical design, verification, and product engineering teams.

Leads RTL design and microarchitecture for TeraWave’s modem system-on-chip. Defines communication-focused architecture, develops Arm compute logic and AXI/SRAM integrations, integrates CoreSight debug, and drives clock, reset, GPIO, memory, Ethernet, and SoC-level integration. Coordinates technical decisions across system, software, performance modeling, and FPGA prototyping teams from specification through production silicon. Supports synthesis, timing constraints, and timing closure.

Supports the design, analysis, integration, and qualification of precision gimbal assemblies and pointing mechanisms for space-based optical communications systems. Responsibilities include trade studies, structural, thermal, and dynamic analysis, requirements and error budgets, qualification testing, documentation, interface definition, tolerance analysis, and production transition. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams and mentorship from senior engineers.

Own verification planning and execution for complex ASIC and SoC blocks, subsystems, and full-chip systems. Develop simulation, formal, and processor-driven verification environments, including scoreboards, monitors, assertions, coverage, regression infrastructure, and reference models. Drive coverage closure, regression health, and sign-off readiness while applying AI-assisted stimulus generation, triage, and analytics. Mentor junior engineers and help establish verification methodology for a new satellite communications silicon program.

Develop and execute automated tests for electromechanical motion-control hardware supporting satellite communications systems. Responsibilities include designing EGSE, ATE, fixtures, instrumentation, and data-acquisition systems; developing test software; operating laboratory hardware; analyzing data; troubleshooting anomalies; and supporting test readiness and failure review boards. The role collaborates with design, systems, and quality engineers across the full test lifecycle.

Leads fluid systems design and analysis for the New Glenn launch vehicle, covering conceptual design, configuration, detailed engineering, verification, flight operations, and sustaining engineering. Develops and validates component and vehicle-level fluid models, derives fluid and thermal loads using CFD and experimental methods, and maintains analysis documentation, models, and results. Reviews junior engineers’ work while supporting safe human spaceflight.