This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s multiple Blue Moon lander product lines. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of people living and working in space, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. 

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

As part of a diverse and hardworking team of engineers and designers, you will work as the Configuration Design Lead of the Cargo Delivery Element (CDE), reporting directly to the CDE Senior Manager. You will serve as a critical team member driving forward the CDE configuration, including the vehicle's physical layout, mechanical and analog interfaces, and overall subsystem integration design. Your role requires leading cross-functional design trades and analyses, along with supporting vehicle mass optimization and the overall Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) mission architecture design efforts. As an integrated team member of the National Team, you will assist systems engineering in driving mass properties and interface control, requirements and interfaces generation, technical performance metrics definition and tracking vehicle design and analysis maturity, manufacturing and test planning, and verification, validation, and certification of the CDE. Those systems products that you will be responsible for developing will provide Lunar Transportation lander vehicles with Cargo Accommodations products to enable unprecedented crew and mass to surface capabilities.

As a Configuration Design Lead, you will work directly with NASA and our National Team Partners and Human-class Cargo providers as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) SLD program. You will play a key role in developing the Lunar Transportation system that will return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of Earth.

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!

Special Mentions

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 50% of the time
• Interviews will include a technical assessment

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead in the overall physical configuration and packaging design of the structural, mechanical, fluids, electrical, and avionics subsystems within the integrated vehicle. 
• Product and manage vehicle CAD models, including making sure top-down design principles, maintaining the CAD structure, and exporting CAD models.
• Create interface definitions between subsystems across the integrated vehicle with appropriate control documents to ensure the configuration supports major design reviews and meets critical program milestones.
• Continually assess design for integrated manufacturing, assembly, test and operations and drive design to optimize for manufacturability, quality, and cost.
• Support systems engineering in the development of system requirements and interfaces definition and flow down, verification, validation, and certification planning.
• Serve as the vehicle configuration lead part of the regular National Team configuration reviews to address element-level interfaces, subsystem functionality, assembly, and operations.
• Support National Team meetings in the presentation of the overall vehicle configuration and element-level trades and analyses in support of the overall SLD mission architecture design and maturity.
• Drive inter-element development priorities and expectations as resolution of integration issues between lead engineers and their respective IPTs.
• Coordinate the cross-functional change management process, facilitating design reviews and ensuring communication between all National Team partners and integrated product teams (IPTs) affected by the change.
• Contribute to cross-functional trade and impact studies to assist in development and programmatic changes
• Ensure the team adheres to the configuration management best practices as well as Blue Origin configuration management standards.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or related subject area
• Successful candidates in this role typically have 5 years of related experience
• Proven configuration control experience on recently developed products from early trade studies through final design, manufacturing, and test
• Strong social skills and experience working in a highly integrated cross-functional team environment
• Strong design and integration skills using 3-D CAD software and experience with large assembly management (Creo Pro/E preferred)
• Experience with component packaging of highly integrated and complex products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment
• 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:

• Served in a similar role with 7 years of related experience.
• Led a team of engineers and/or configurators in support of an airspace or aerospace product(s).
• Experience designing and developing flight proven spacecraft hardware.
• Strong knowledge of GD&T practices with tolerance stack-up analysis. 
• Experience with requirements management (DNG preferred).
• Experience working across various teams and customers, domestically and/or internationally.