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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.

Own launch infrastructure projects from site evaluation and conceptual planning through design, construction, and completion. Develop site layouts, master plans, cost estimates, and infrastructure requirements; manage A&E firms and contractors; review designs, RFIs, and submittals; coordinate environmental permitting and agency stakeholders; and control project risks, budgets, schedules, and design intent. The role supports future launch and test facilities and requires field work at government installations.

Develops and executes supplier quality processes for aerospace launch vehicles, spacecraft, and related systems. Responsibilities include supplier evaluations, performance monitoring, audits, source inspections, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, containment, nonconformance reduction, and production transition support. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and suppliers to resolve technical quality issues and communicate risks. Requires aerospace manufacturing and supplier quality experience, with travel up to 50%.

Own launch infrastructure projects from site evaluation and conceptual planning through design, construction, and completion. Develop master plans, cost estimates, schedules, and infrastructure requirements; manage A&E firms, contractors, change orders, RFIs, and submittals. Coordinate environmental reviews, permitting, agencies, internal stakeholders, and external partners. Identify project risks, protect design intent, and deliver projects safely, on schedule, and within budget.

Designs and owns fluid and propulsion system hardware for Blue Origin’s crewed lunar lander, including tubing, mounts, valves, instrumentation, heaters, and fittings. Creates Creo CAD models and engineering artifacts, supports manufacturing and suppliers, performs structural and nonlinear FEA in ANSYS, interprets P&IDs, and supports hardware through design, fabrication, assembly, verification, testing, and operations.

Leads design, analysis, testing, qualification, and flight development of liquid rocket thrusters. Designs injectors and combustion chambers, integrates valves and feed systems, analyzes performance and stability, supports hot-fire campaigns, investigates failures, develops engineering tools, mentors engineers, and coordinates cross-functional propulsion hardware development.

Leads a team of fluids analysts supporting lunar lander design, propulsion, operations, and vehicle analysis. Oversees hiring, performance management, mentoring, technical process improvement, and analysis tool development. Provides technical guidance on fluids, thermal systems, propulsion, cryogenic systems, uncertainty validation, fluid network modeling, CFD, and engineering calculations across pre-launch, in-space, and landing phases.

Leads a multidisciplinary fluids design engineering team supporting Blue Origin’s MK1 Lunar Lander. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, technical direction, component design, manufacturing and test support, supplier coordination, design reviews, anomaly investigations, corrective actions, process improvement, and lifecycle development of fluids and propulsion hardware.

Designs, analyzes, documents, integrates, and tests electromechanical systems for space resource applications in thermal and pressure environments. Responsibilities include mechanical design using advanced materials, thermal and structural analysis, tolerance analysis, design reviews, hardware testing, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. The role is fully on-site in Los Angeles.

Designs and integrates ground support equipment, tooling, fixtures, structures, and test assemblies for spacecraft systems. Performs mechanical and electrical integration, vacuum and thermal system operations, high-voltage work, instrumentation installation, test setup and teardown, and prototype hardware rework. Creates and manages CAD assemblies and engineering drawings, applies GD&T and tolerance analysis, resolves documentation discrepancies, supports manufacturability, maintains safety and quality records, and mentors junior technicians.