Systems Engineer III - New Glenn Upper Stage

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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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! 

As part of a hardworking team of engineers, specialists, and technicians, you will work on systems engineering for the New Glenn Upper Stage and Payload Accommodations (GS2PA) Program. Your activities may include engagement in conducting trade studies, developing margins for allocations, risk management, gated reviews, system safety analysis, technical performance management, configuration and data management, payload integration, and regulatory compliance. Our team is also responsible for verifying that our customers will have a phenomenal ride to space.

You will be the authority on all aspects of your subsystem’s operations, including CONOPS, functional architecture, and integrated hardware/software functionality. You will follow the development component hardware, autonomous software, and integrated development testing, and will be accountable for feeding forward lessons learned into the integrated operation of your subsystem on the flight vehicle. You will collaborate with the stage-level lead engineer, and you will create a comprehensive set of constraints, alerts, and limits for the New Glenn integrated test and launch teams.

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!

• Support Vehicle and Ground System Project Leads by carrying out systems engineering activities in accordance with Blue Origin standards and practices

• Build detailed CONOPS for pre-launch and flight operations

• Requirements authoring, decomposition, analysis, traceability, and verification

• Negotiate interfaces and coordinate between internal and external stakeholders

• Develop and implement verification plans and strategies to complete verification of requirements

• Define operational constraints for the end-to-end safe handling and successful operation of the subsystem

• Lead gated reviews and support New Glenn program and element level gated reviews.

• Author and maintain system safety documentation such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA); Architecture Safety Assessments (ASA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), and Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECAs)

• Collaborate with integrated test, launch operations, and autonomous flight operations customer teams to incorporate operational constraints into downstream procedures and flight plans

• Provide real-time engineering anomaly resolution during integrated test and launch operations

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace engineering or other technical field

• 5+ years of current technical hands-on experience in: Fluids, Thermal, Propulsion, Cryogenics, Pneumatics

• Technical hands-on experience in at least one of these areas: Analysis, Design, Testing, launch operations

• Hands-on experience in developing, authoring, and implementing integrated tests or operating launch vehicles

• A passion for understanding the bigger picture

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work effectively in teams as well as lead through influence

• Experience in system engineering on launch vehicles, spacecraft, or in other highly regulated industries

• Experience writing or consuming requirements

• Ability to operate, make decisions, lead, and make forward progress in ambiguous environments

• Launch vehicle controller (front room or engineering back room) experience

• Experience with system safety

• System integration experience, preferably with aerospace hardware

• Knowledge of current systems engineering processes and methodologies

• Experience with DOORS Next Generation or equivalent requirements management software

• Experience in reliability, maintainability and operability analysis and execution

• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA

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