Lead Aerospace Systems Engineer

1w1 week ago

Blue Origin

Washington, US · Full-time · $145,188 – $203,263

About this role

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. This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle.

As a Lead Systems Engineer on the Systems Engineering Integration and Test team, apply broad multidisciplinary engineering knowledge and skills to create processes and procedures for development, implementation, certification, and sustainment of the launch system. The role requires deep understanding of requirements definition, verification and validation, functional analysis, modeling and simulation, system safety analysis, and specialty engineering.

Join a hardworking team of engineers supporting alignment and consistent implementation of systems engineering practices from the system level through lower-level program tiers and across program systems. Work across vehicle stages and subsystems to support integrated launch system design, build, certification, and sustainment. Help develop metrics to provide insight into program health and track progress toward major milestones.

Lead operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives for the Systems Engineering function. Serve in a systems integration capacity with multidisciplinary teams to create technical solutions. Support major milestones and program-level reviews through proactive identification of issues and mitigations.

Requirements

B.S. degree in engineering or a related technical field
8+ years of proven Systems Engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or other regulated safety-critical industry
Demonstrated experience with complex system development from concept, detailed design, test, and certification
Experience in at least one focused subject area, such as mechanical, fluids, thermal, propulsion, avionics or electrical hardware and/or software, telemetry/communications, structures, ground operations, or flight and ground autonomy
Knowledge in requirements management, functional analysis, systems architecture, safety analysis, verification and validation, and other systems engineering lifecycle processes

Responsibilities

Lead operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives for the Systems Engineering function
Develop processes and engineering tools to ensure consistent and high-quality implementation across the program
Serve in a systems integration capacity working with multidisciplinary teams to create technical solutions
Work across vehicle stages and subsystems to support integrated launch system design, build, certification, and sustainment
Support the alignment and standardized implementation of systems engineering practices for multiple system levels and across vehicles and subsystems
Develop metrics to monitor overall quality and schedule performance of engineering development to proactively identify potential issues and mitigations
Support the development, allocation, verification of requirements at all levels using requirements management tools like DOORS Next Gen