At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!
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.
This position is part of the Space Systems Development (SSD) business unit. SSD develops next-generation concepts and systems to advance our future of living and working in space sustainably.
Blue Origin is seeking a new member for our team to serve as a Payload Systems Integration Engineer reporting to and accountable to the Lead Systems Engineer of the Orbital Reef Program. As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for supporting Orbital Reef laboratory design, analysis, and payload customer processes. You will be responsible for generating requirements and verification documents, performing trade studies, and developing payloads processes from contract to customer return. You will identify innovations and efficiencies required for optimizing the payloads process for future Orbital Reef payloads customers. The position will involve coordination with Orbital Reef Chief Scientist, Vehicle Architecture Leads, Vehicle Systems Engineers, and other representatives and stakeholders.
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! If you’re excited by providing near-term value, solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, and completing challenging activities, please apply!
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of system and test engineers to identify, derive, develop, maintain, and verify Mission Systems and Flight Operations requirements; including, traceability and verification and validation approach, necessary to implement a design that meets objectives.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including engineers, representing flight vehicle systems, ground software, flight control operators and customers.
- Define the operations concept, ground system and data communications architectures, and designs that enable highly effective and labor-efficient real-time spacecraft and ground system operation, systems performance assessment and inter-team communication and coordination.
- Define and maintain ground system interface requirements and control documents, for example between Mission Control Centers.
- Plan, perform and document requirement verification and validation in one or more Mission Systems and Flight Operations subdisciplines, including Astrodynamics, Flight Operations and Ground Data Systems.
- Plan and perform frequent Flight Operations product update cycles, integration and test activities, and validation exercises leading to operations training events and flight.
- Support initiatives to improve Mission Systems and Flight Operations engineering and other functional processes and tools.
- Perform analysis to ensure operability across the Space-Ground System, and support efforts to improve operability where justified.
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, physics or related technical field.
- 8+ years experience in a complex system lifecycle – requirement definition, design solution definition, trade studies, implementation, integration, verification, validation, qualification, commissioning and/or operations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work 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.
Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Ground Data System architecture in the context of space mission flight operations.
- Ground Software design and development.
- Spacecraft telemetry, commanding and sequencing.
- Flight-ground RF communications.
- Operational fault management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- M.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, physics or related technical field.
- Experience working on large complex programs with multiple partners.
- Experience defining and performing multifaceted trade studies.
- Experience with human spaceflight.
- First principles knowledge of all major spacecraft subsystems.
- Experience with requirements definition and management, preferably using Jama or DOORS Next Generation.
- Familiarity with system safety analyses techniques including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
- Experience or familiarity with: model-based systems engineering methods and tools including SysML, collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA, version control such as Git, configuration and product data management tools such as Windchill.