Prin. Operations Architect

Blue Origin • Littleton, CO

14h

About The Position

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! 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. As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, engineers, you will oversee the development of hardware and autonomous software components, support integrated development testing, and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into the subsystem’s flight vehicle operations for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of the New Glenn System—spanning CONOPS, functional architecture, components, software, and system-level interactions. 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 in engineering or another technical field
• 12+ Years of experience in Aerospace or large scale processing systems
• Experience with system engineering principles
• Experience in at least one of the areas of analysis, design, or integrated testing
• Experience in at least one of focused subject area of fluids, mechanical hardware, thermal, propulsion, avionics or electrical hardware and/or software, telemetry/communications, structures, ground operations or flight/ground autonomy

Nice To Haves

• System development/integration experience – preferably with aerospace systems
• Experience with flight systems
• Knowledge of current systems/project engineering and integration tools and methodologies
• Experience in facilities construction and renovation projects
• Experience with large scale mechanical system design / operations

Responsibilities

• Ensure the launch vehicle, ground equipment, and personnel are readied for all phases of the New Glenn mission including build, test, pre-launch, boost, orbital operations landing, and recovery.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for all design, test, software, operations, and refurbishment artifacts.
• Provide real-time on console support for integrated tests, launch and recovery operations providing crucial troubleshooting support.
• Assess, identify and support fixes to gaps in system operational timeline
• Understand how subsystem control software operates across flight and ground systems to ensure safety and mission success.
• Author operations documents that define product testing requirements, operations lifecycle, maintenance requirements, and critical performance/requirements interfaces across the system.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and appropriate integration of operating requirements into procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.
• Provide program support to the chief engineer office for delegated engineering change requests, design review actions, technical readiness reviews, performance metrics/assessment and technical risk management.
• Provide operational feedback to subsystem designers and support operational analysis

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.
• 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: Principal