Aerospace Systems Engineer II - Blue Ring Space Vehicle Requirements & Verification Architect

Blue Origin•Littleton, CO

About The Position

The Space Vehicle Requirements & Verification Architect works within Blue Ring’s Systems Engineering, Integration & Test organization to define, capture, and manage mission-specific system requirements and verification artifacts. The role partners with system, software, hardware, and integration and test engineers to establish verification and validation plans and strategies for Blue Ring spacecraft missions and customer needs. The position works at spacecraft mission and system level, focusing on system verification for Blue Ring architectural product-line variants. Its scope includes spacecraft bus, ground system, payload requirements, and interfaces in a model-based environment. The role ensures verification data is generated and aggregated across spacecraft bus, payload, ground system, and launch vehicle integration, culminating in delivery of a qualified system ready for launch. It begins with a new customer mission and is expected to grow with the product line across multiple missions and objectives. The position reports to the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Requirements, Verification & Architecture Director for the space mobility product line. Relocation is provided, and travel of 10–15% is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, or Software Engineering, or an equivalent technical field.
Experience with requirements-management tools such as DOORS or Jama.
At least 5 years of space-system development or test-engineering experience.
At least 2 years of spacecraft verification experience.
Demonstrated experience in requirements definition, traceability, interface definition, design documentation, integration, verification, and validation.
Background creating requirements verification reports and rolling up verification of lower-level requirements to system-level selloff.
Experience across the systems-engineering lifecycle and the Systems Engineering V.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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.
Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.

Nice To Haves

Spacecraft operations or command-and-control system experience, including familiarity with spacecraft and ground-system interfaces and/or spacecraft communications uplink and downlink technologies.
Spaceflight and mission-operations experience, including CONOPs development.
Product-line engineering experience.
Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering.
Familiarity with system-modeling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, MagicDraw, or Rhapsody.
Software or scripting-language experience.
Knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
Familiarity with formal risk and opportunity management processes.
Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

Serve as Mission Requirements & Verification Lead for a critical Blue Ring customer mission, including requirement decomposition, derivation, and allocation.
Collaborate with mission lead systems engineers and spacecraft systems, flight software, payload and mission integration, and ground systems engineering teams to define system and mission verification plans across customers and missions.
Engage internal and external customers, including government agencies and contractors, to analyze customer and mission requirements and verification needs.
Develop and manage requirements and verification modules, including internal and external interfaces, ensuring accurate flow-down and traceability.
Define relationships and traceability among requirements, design parameters, technical budgets, interface control documents (ICDs), program plans, and technical performance measures.
Establish system-requirement verification approaches and plans, and identify integration and test activities needed for successful requirements selloff.
Coordinate across organizational boundaries to acquire verification data needed to demonstrate compliance with system requirements.
Perform compliance and traceability assessments and report key metrics and issues to program leadership and stakeholders.
Create and own system-level spacecraft verification plans and execution.
Support launch-site system testing, including payload and launch-vehicle integration.
Develop product-line verification plans and roll-up deliverables.
Deliver verification reports that demonstrate launch and operational readiness.
Ensure payload interface requirements are met and the spacecraft is ready for countdown.
Verify end-to-end system functionality, including ground-system compatibility.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Basic and supplemental life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Short- and long-term disability.
401(k) with company match of up to 5%.
Education Support Program.
Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.