Jobs at Blue Origin

Design and lay out high-reliability aerospace PCBs involving digital, analog, mixed-signal, high-speed, RF, and high-power circuits. Collaborate across engineering teams, create schematics and documentation, resolve layout issues, maintain eCAD libraries, support DFM/DFA/DFT reviews, ensure IPC and manufacturing compliance, and improve PCB development processes. Provide technical guidance, mentor junior resources, review other layout work, and contribute throughout product development and production.

Leads mission systems engineering for complex space missions, including mission architecture, CONOPS, requirements decomposition, trade studies, interface management, verification and validation, integration and testing, and technical design reviews. Supports new product formulation, capture and proposal efforts, customer engagement, and national security space programs. Provides autonomous technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams and guides systems from concept through mission execution.

Leads end-to-end verification strategy for advanced satellite communication ASIC and SoC programs. Establishes methodologies, infrastructure, coverage, assertions, formal analysis, emulation, and signoff criteria across block, subsystem, and SoC levels. Guides verification of modem pipelines, FEC engines, digital beamforming, packet processing, and control fabrics; resolves complex failures, develops reusable verification frameworks, influences tool strategy, and mentors technical leaders.

Leads commercial supply chain and procurement performance for aerospace programs, managing buyers, strategic sourcing, supplier contracts, capacity, readiness, cost, schedule, and risk. The role oversees FFP contracts and LTAs, supplier industrialization, manufacturing readiness, material estimating, ERP/MRP tools, and executive reporting. It also drives supplier issue resolution and cross-functional collaboration across manufacturing, quality, safety, and mission assurance.

Leads a multidisciplinary team responsible for designing, analyzing, developing, testing, and delivering spacecraft zero-gravity propellant management and propulsion components. Owns product scope, technical plans, risks, costs, schedules, requirements, verification, and customer interfaces. Manages employee hiring, development, performance, and team culture while coordinating with operations, supply chain, and vehicle teams. Requires deep aerospace propulsion expertise, project management experience, and technical leadership across the full product lifecycle.

Conduct thermal and fluids analysis for lunar lander systems across design, build, test, and integration. Develop and validate CFD thermo-fluid models for cryogenic propellants, perform system-level trade studies, assess engine interface impacts, analyze output data, and present technical findings. Document analysis results in Windchill to support engineering decisions and collaborate with subsystem, vehicle, business unit, and customer stakeholders.

Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, risks, hardware status, production, testing campaigns, and performance reporting for spacecraft propellant-management projects. Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, business, and NASA stakeholders; maintain integrated master schedules and analytics; support program reviews and deliverables; and ensure timely product delivery. The role requires aerospace or project-management experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and proficiency with project, collaboration, and reporting tools.

Supports ownership, design integration, verification, supplier coordination, and manufacturing execution for cryogenic propellant management hardware. Responsibilities include DFM/DFA reviews, translating requirements into fabrication and assembly processes, developing work instructions and inspection plans, troubleshooting shop-floor nonconformances, supporting root cause analysis and MRB dispositions, evaluating manufacturing methods, and contributing to FMEAs, validation, quality compliance, and cost reduction for aerospace fluid systems.

Owns cryogenic liquid subsystem hardware from requirements and conceptual design through detailed design, manufacturing, integration, verification, certification, and operation. Provides technical leadership, performs cryogenic system trades, controls technical baselines, releases drawings, supports manufacturing, manages procurements and dependencies, and leads internal and supplier development efforts for lunar spacecraft systems.

Owns cryogenic propellant management hardware throughout its lifecycle, including requirements, design, analysis, procurement, manufacturing, testing, integration, verification, and operation. Provides technical oversight, leads trade studies and development meetings, supports suppliers, releases drawings, and delivers hardware for Blue Origin lunar vehicles. Requires expertise in cryogenic fluids, aerospace systems, fluid and gas components, and human-rated spaceflight environments.

Design and release Creo models, assemblies, weldments, and drawings for cryogenic propellant management hardware used in lunar landers. Support requirements, component ownership, trade studies, analysis, verification, supplier coordination, procurement tracking, manufacturing, integration, and design reviews. Apply GD&T, MBD, PMI, configuration management, and drafting standards while developing manufacturable deliverables for valves, manifolds, tubing, pressure vessels, and support structures.

Lead New Glenn range safety compliance activities for ground operations, maintaining regulatory compliance products and coordinating with US Space Force partners. Plan and deliver complex technical products across multiple subject areas, communicate results, manage resources, and support large-scale aerospace program operations. The role requires working knowledge of SSCMAN 91-710, strong product ownership, project management skills, and effective cross-functional collaboration.

Lead mission systems engineering for Blue Origin’s Blue Ring and Mars Telecommunications Network. Define and maintain requirements, verification and validation plans, interfaces, and ground and mission operations architectures. Collaborate across spacecraft, software, operations, and payload teams; conduct integration, testing, performance analysis, and mission readiness activities. Ensure compliance with NASA and CCSDS standards while supporting deep-space, delay-tolerant operations and lifecycle development from requirements through deployment and operations.

Develop and own digital, analog, and mixed-signal avionics circuit boards across the full product lifecycle, including requirements, design, simulation, schematic capture, layout, prototyping, testing, verification, and production release. Support avionics architecture studies, component selection, risk and failure analyses, reliability assessments, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations. Contribute to safety, mission assurance, technology development, and process improvements while communicating technical status and risks. The role involves hands-on collaboration and approximately 10% travel.

Design, develop, test, and integrate distributed software for global ground station operations. Build APIs, dashboards, workflow automation, monitoring, and secure interfaces for telemetry, tracking, command, and payload data systems. Conduct post-mission analytics, integrate third-party stations and customer systems, and collaborate with software, networking, and RF/DSP engineering teams to deliver reliable mission-critical infrastructure.

Conduct thermal and fluids analysis for Blue Origin’s MK1 lunar lander throughout design, build, test, and integration. Develop and validate thermo-fluid models using component and vehicle test data, perform system-level trade studies, analyze results, document findings in Windchill, and present recommendations to engineering and business stakeholders. The role focuses on cryogenic, gaseous, two-phase, propulsion, and spacecraft fluid systems.

Designs and develops fluid and propulsion system hardware for Blue Origin’s lunar lander, including cryogenic tubing, fittings, mounts, valves, heaters, and instrumentation. Owns CAD models and engineering artifacts throughout the product lifecycle, leads design-for-manufacturability activities, coordinates suppliers and manufacturing, performs structural and FEA analysis, interprets P&IDs, and supports fabrication, assembly, verification, testing, and operations.

Lead technical project management for RF component development supporting Blue Origin lunar vehicles. Manage technical, cost, schedule, risk, procurement, supplier coordination, product roadmaps, program reviews, and operating metrics. Partner with engineering teams, leadership, NASA, external customers, vendors, and suppliers to deliver qualified flight hardware. Support Agile planning, earned-value and baseline management, and continuous process improvement across RF Systems integrated product teams.

Leads the technical baseline and lifecycle development of reusable embedded motor controllers for lunar spacecraft mechanisms. Responsibilities include defining architectures and interfaces, developing fault-tolerant control strategies, coordinating cross-functional teams, performing hardware bring-up and troubleshooting, reviewing electronics designs, and planning verification, qualification, environmental, and acceptance testing. The role requires hands-on control systems expertise across hardware, firmware, sensors, actuators, and avionics interfaces, along with technical leadership in safety-critical aerospace environments.

Own systems engineering for a complex Human Landing System scope, including requirements decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification planning and closure, system safety, variance disposition, root-cause analysis, and corrective action. Represent the scope in design and program reviews, coordinate across engineering teams and partners, and improve tool-driven requirements and verification workflows. Travel up to 25% is expected, and relocation is provided.