Senior Constellation AI&T Engineer

Blue Origin • Huntsville, AL

1d • Hybrid

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! The role is part of the In-Space Systems business unit, which is focused on addressing two of the most compelling challenges in spaceflight today: space infrastructure and increasing mobility on-orbit. This role is part of the Blue National Security business unit, which is focused on delivering advanced space-based capabilities in support of national security, civil, and commercial missions. Within the Advanced Systems organization, the multi-disciplinary Future Concepts & Capabilities team operates at the forefront of systems engineering, formulation, and architecture, developing next-generation space systems that address the most demanding and consequential challenges in the space domain. We are seeking a Senior Assembly, Integration & Test (AI&T) Engineer to shape the integration, test, and verification approach for satellite payloads and integrated in-space constellation solutions from the earliest stages of mission concept development. In this role, you will translate mission architectures and customer requirements into credible, cost-effective AI&T approaches — spanning test flow concepts, verification planning, acceptance campaign design, and proposal content — drawing on your own hands-on AI&T background to ground those concepts in demonstrated, real-world capability. The ideal candidate brings deep AI&T expertise on space-qualified buses, components, sensor systems, and/or specialized payloads, combined with the ability to assess integration and test risk early in a program's lifecycle and translate that insight into winning technical proposals. If you're looking for novel challenges and rewarding work, come join a team developing next-generation space systems for the defense and civil domains!

Requirements

• B.S. in engineering or equivalent technical field; 10+ years of related experience in the design, development, and flight of aerospace systems.
• 6+ years of experience in spacecraft or aerospace systems assembly, integration and test.
• Has taken at least one aerospace system through assembly, integration, and test to launch or deployment, including hands-on time on the integration floor and/or at the launch site.
• Demonstrated ability to scale test and verification strategy to program needs — from tens of units under traditional aerospace practice (SMC-S-016 / MIL-STD-1540) to high-rate builds using protoflight, HALT/HASS, and lot acceptance sampling — and to select and defend the appropriate qualification and acceptance approach based on build rate, mission class, and risk posture.
• Experience establishing and driving AI&T metrics (e.g., first-pass yield, test cycle time, rework rates) and defining automated checkout and screening/acceptance sampling strategies.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including requirements verification and the full "Systems Engineering V."
• Proven ability to build and defend cost, schedule, and throughput estimates for work that has not been done before.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and brief senior internal and customer stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating with incomplete information on quick-turn studies with shifting priorities.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. or Ph.D. with 8+ years in engineering or equivalent technical field.
• Experience on programs spanning both ends of the production volume spectrum — exquisite/low-rate and proliferated/high-rate — in space or an adjacent high-reliability industry (aircraft, missiles, automotive/EV, semiconductor capital equipment).
• Experience tailoring SMC-S-016, MIL-STD-1540, or equivalent qualification standards for a proliferated architecture, and defending that tailoring to a government customer.
• Experience with HALT/HASS screening, reliability growth, or environmental stress screening program design.
• Demonstrated experience designing, standing up, or materially scaling a production line for complex aerospace or comparable hardware, including taking a program from prototype/first-article build through sustained-rate production.

Responsibilities

• Define integration and test architectures for constellation concepts, including test flow, facility and GSE concepts, acceptance campaign structure, and throughput modeling at quantities from tens to hundreds of vehicles.
• Drive design-for-test and design-for-integration into early architecture trades across payload and bus subsystems (power, comm, avionics, GN&C, propulsion, thermal, structures).
• Develop AI&T concepts for rate production, including test automation, streamlined acceptance campaigns, reduced-touch environmental strategies, and first-pass-yield and rework assumptions.
• Define launch-cadence-driven constraints on the architecture: dispenser and stack integration, encapsulation flow, launch site processing throughput, and deployment concepts.
• Author technical content for proposals, white papers, and customer engagements, including AI&T approach, test flow narratives, staffing and facility basis of estimate, and associated risk.
• Serve as the AI&T technical authority in architecture reviews, concept gates, and independent reviews; capture integration and test risks and mitigation plans.
• Partner with program AI&T organizations to ground concepts in real, demonstrated capability and to hand off mature architectures at award.

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: Senior