This role is a part of New Shepard, a reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space. Through operational reusability, New Shepard supports our mission of lowering the cost of access to space!

As part of a hardworking team of diverse engineers, you will craft, analyze, and verify guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) software for spaceflight systems. In this role, you will build on our existing human-rated GN&C software to improve reliability, enable capabilities, and reduce operating cost. You will have the opportunity to work hands-on testing and characterizing navigation sensors and hardware, including IMUs, GNSS receivers, and LIDAR sensors. You will also perform system analyses, including Monte Carlo simulations, to satisfy specifications and requirements and to drive system-level architectural decisions. You will ensure the safety and reliability of the system by authoring and performing Verification and Validation (V&V) tasks to ensure the software meets requirements and specifications. Our team is responsible for the full life-cycle of GN&C development, from design through to unit, hardware-in-the-loop, on-vehicle functionality, and flight testing. You will contribute to a sophisticated multi-degree of freedom aerospace simulation and test framework, and develop and maintain design descriptions and supporting documentation.

You should be working in a fast-paced and sometimes uncertain environment, contributing to solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, physics, or related field with 5 years of proven experience
• Knowledge in designing, modeling, testing, and flying aerospace GN&C systems
• Software and model development expertise, including design, V&V, testing, and configuration control, with emphasis in C , Python, and MATLAB/Simulink coding
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
• Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of multi-body dynamics, flexible body dynamics, gas dynamics, fluids, thermodynamics, and/or fluid slosh
• Proven experience with safety-critical software development in aerospace, automotive, or other industries. Familiar with standards such as DO-178.
• Knowledge of navigation sensors, including GNSS receivers, accelerometers, and gyroscopes.
• Experience anchoring/fitting first principles models to test data or high-fidelity external simulations using system identification or other numerical methods
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulation testing
• Experience supporting flight testing or launch operations
• Ability to continuously handle risk and use Agile software development techniques