This role is part of the Lunar Transportation business unit. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of people living and working in space, we are building the sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the Lunar Surface. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Develop test fixture and load application concepts to support vehicle level structural testing
• Plan testing schedules including transportation, assembly, test execution, report generation, and test teardown. Coordinate with multiple stakeholders to ensure test schedule is accurate and easy to understand.
• Model structural test article specific configurations in CREO
• Work with Responsible Engineers to determine enveloping load cases
• Trade load head concepts including technical, schedule and cost solutions to determine load heads for test
• Plan, develop and execute structural test procedures for flight hardware
• Lead daily test operations, operate test consoles, direct technician work and coordinate with internal customers
• Work with the design and systems engineers to plan tests of the vehicle subsystems, ensuring the tests are designed to verify the pertinent requirements
• Design, procure, and install test support equipment; manage vendors and subcontractors during installation
• Troubleshoot issues that arise during testing
• Reduce, analyze, and archive test data to support verification tasks
• Perform root cause, system hazard analysis and failure investigations
• Participate in test readiness review, pre and post test briefings, and post test reviews.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!
• BS in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, physics, or related technical discipline
• 3 years of applicable experience
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills
• Experience working collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• 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: 

• Experience with space vehicle component or integrated vehicle testing including structural, vibe, acoustic, modal, thermal, EMI/EMC, performance, leak, proof, shock
• Experience with participating in NASA technical reviews
• Experience with test facility instrumentation and Data Acquisition and Control Systems
• Understands/experience with hazardous operations
• Experience with scripting (Python or other scripting language)