This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse engineers, you will be directly involved in the development and delivery of engine systems supporting a variety of customers and customer needs. This includes various lifecycles of engine development, including requirements development and decomposition, technical trade study support, risk management, verification planning and execution, and a myriad of other systems engineering-related activities. These responsibilities will require a wide application of sophisticated systems engineering principles, theories, and concepts plus a strong understanding of other related subject areas. In this role, you will assist the Engines team with coordination and planning and participate in process improvement activities. You will adopt and advocate for system engineering and integration practices across fields and teams in areas of system analysis, design, or integrated testing. You will directly impact the future of space flight and help us make progress toward our mission of building the road to space through reusable rockets. Join us in advancing our vision of millions living and working in space to benefit Earth!

In this position, you will work on a wide range of applications of liquid rocket engine technology. From monopropellant In-Space thrusters to reusable liquid natural gas (LNG) staged combustion engines. Systems engineers are responsible for understanding these engines and making vital technical decisions that will impact the success of each of the programs.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to impact safe human spaceflight positively. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Participate and guide system design and development at all stages of the development lifecycle, beginning with requirements capture and flow-down, through preliminary design, critical design, product realization, design verification testing, system integration, qualification, certification, and delivery
• Develop, manage, and allocate requirements & interfaces and ensure requirements are accurately linked
• Implement systems engineering activities by system engineering standards and practices
• Support gated reviews
• Develop and mature Concept of Operations documents
• Coordinate consistent System Safety products for our engines, ensuring that no gaps exist in the analysis performed by the subsystem engineers
• Review verification records (test plans, test reports, analysis reports, inspection reports, etc.) to ensure the appropriate rigor
• Ensure all aspects of the system are working to the accurate configuration including drawings, interface control documents, and the design description documents
• Participate in specialty engineering (operability, reliability, maintainability, supportability) integration, analysis and verification
• Act as the negotiator between multiple and sometimes conflicting interests to make sure the system as a whole is optimized
• Working with launch vehicle customers and test sites, creating interface definition and design specification documents from engineering documentation. Respond to all facets of customer’s vehicle operability questions during all life-cycle phases of design, development, test, and launch.
• Effectively communicate development status, risks, and challenges
• Track, evaluate, and report on system metrics
• Support engine-level trade studies

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering or another technical field
• 5 years of system development/integration experience
• Knowledge of current systems engineering and integration tools and methodologies, in a safety-critical environment
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively in teams, demonstrated execution and coordination skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through direct authority or influence
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as DOORS, DNG, Jama, or similar
• Experience with Atlassian collaboration tools Jira and Confluence
• 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:

• 2 years of experience with liquid rocket engines or propulsion
• Experience in reliability, maintainability, and supportability analysis and execution
• System Safety analysis experience including Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, and Functional Hazard Analysis
• Basic project management skills
• Demonstrated configuration management experience
• Experience with failure investigations
• Experience supporting proposals