Mechanical Systems Engineer II - New Glenn

BLUE ORIGIN • Seattle, WA

12d • $99,201 - $138,880

About The Position

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.
This role supports the production and upgrades of New Glenn, a single-configuration heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of carrying payloads to Earth’s orbit and beyond. Engineered with a reusable first stage and a seven-meter payload fairing, New Glenn is building the road to space.
As part of a small, hard-working, and accomplished team of experts you will lead the design, development, and test various spaceflight systems. You will share toward the team’s impact on all aspects of structures, mechanical, and fluid systems. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.
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!

Requirements

• B.S. degree or higher in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• Recent experience managing aerospace or equivalent type mechanical systems elements within aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicles. Candidates with various levels of experience are welcome to apply.
• Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D modeling tools
• Experience with GD&T (ASME Y14.5)
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Knowledge of fabrication, integration processes, and quality control relative to tubes/piping and machined components
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 2-4 years of recent experience managing aerospace or equivalent type mechanical systems elements within aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicles.
• 2+ years direct project management experience; including schedule, cost, risk, performance, change and configuration management, and supplier relations
• Experience across the full product development lifecycle: concept definition, architecture, requirements capture and development, implementation, verification, system integration, qualification and release
• Experience in primary flight control actuator design
• Experience in aerospace hydraulic system component design or system architecture design
• Experience in aerospace deployable devices design such as doors, landing gear or sensors
• Experience in spacecraft separation systems design
• Experience in Creo (Pro-E) and Windchill PLM
• Experience in structural FEA using ANSYS, NASTRAN or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Applies engineering techniques to design, install, modify, analyze, repair structural, mechanical, and fluid systems hardware.
• Role will have a strong emphasis on supporting production activities.
• Specifically identifying available work and resolving roadblocks to facilitate production tasks.
• Release, and support of engineering artifacts across the product life cycle to support hardware fabrication, assembly, verification, test and operations. Implements’ operating procedures, resolves system malfunctions, and provides technical information.
• Specifies system components or directs modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications.
• Lead Root Cause and Corrective action investigations into hardware failures to facilitate smooth production operations across the launch vehicle.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level