Senior Structural Engineer - New Glenn

BLUE ORIGIN • West Melbourne, FL

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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 a member of a dedicated, skilled team of experts, you will be in charge of designing, manufacturing, and installing the structural hardware for New Glenn. Collaborating with analysts, materials engineers, procurement specialists, and manufacturing teams, you will aim to deliver a highly optimized structural assembly for vehicle integration. This role will specifically support our FWD module engineering team, ensuring seamless assembly and integration of the rocket stages to meet our rigorous performance and safety standards. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Requirements

• B.S. degree or higher in mechanical, structural, or other relevant engineering field.
• 5-10+ years in professional engineering experience with automotive, aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures.
• Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials, stress/strain, statics, and finite element analysis.
• Experience on recently developed vehicles in one or more of the following areas: vehicle load path distribution and first order strength assessment and sizing.
• Experience with large primary or secondary structures.
• Experience with material selection, compatibility, and metallic manufacturing techniques & product forms (e.g. sheet metal, machining, etc).
• Familiarity with tolerance, GD&T and design for manufacturability.
• Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D CAD software.
• Hands on experience with hardware “on the production floor” and/or “in service”

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work independently driving engineering from conceptual to released engineering and flight hardware.
• Experience designing for manufacturability and value engineering, with focus on cost reduction and build time hour optimization.
• Product data management (PDM) skills (e.g. Windchill, TeamCenter, etc).
• Experience with FEA analysis codes: Nastran, ANSYS, Optistruct, LS/Dyna.
• Familiarity with buckling, fatigue and/or fracture failure modes
• Experience in risk management and consolidation of technical data for presentation to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility: Full design engineering ownership of metallic structural components.
• Lead engineering scope to close including planning, detailed design, engineering release, procurement, and test.
• Provide general build support Engineering through the disposition of non-conformances, identification of process improvements, and updates to engineering definition.
• Identify, develop and implement opportunities for New Glenn upgrades and improvements.
• Create and modify CAD drawings, specifications, and other documentation.
• Support procurement activities to support vehicle build schedules.
• Support integrated test objectives, data review, and reporting.
• Perform or facilitate emergent analysis for non-conformances.
• Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.
• Work with multi-functional teams across multiple work sites that include design, analysis, materials, processes, structures, fluids, systems, procurement, and manufacturing.

Benefits

• Benefits include: 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.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion.
• Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

What This Job Offers

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