Senior System Engineer
About The Position
This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a reusable heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle designed to carry people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar space, and beyond. The position drives technical execution of the New Glenn 9x4 GS1 forward module and leads and coordinates test and build campaigns across multiple operational sites. It manages stakeholders across engineering, supply chain, safety, operations, launch, maintenance, and IT, and supports cross-team collaboration through broad knowledge of Forward Module systems. The Senior System Engineer coordinates design, development, testing, and deployment of features into production across multiple technical teams. The role owns implementation planning, technical requirements, milestones, risks, dependencies, schedules, and stakeholder progress reporting. It requires managing complex integration work, identifying and mitigating risks, balancing business needs against technical constraints, and aligning stakeholder needs and organizational goals. The position also develops plans with measurable success criteria, communicates program updates to stakeholders and management, and helps teams avoid common requirements, collaboration, integration, and testing failures. Passion for Blue Origin’s mission and vision is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent.
- 8+ years of technical product or program management experience working directly with software engineering teams.
- 5+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
- 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.
- Organizational expertise and excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Commitment to quality and passion for the company’s mission and vision.
Nice To Haves
- 8+ years of project management disciplines, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical path management.
- 3+ years of software development experience.
- Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
- Experience defining KPIs and SLAs used to drive multi-million-dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
- Proven track record delivering large cross-functional initiatives while managing competing priorities.
- Excellent understanding of organizational goals and objectives.
- Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
- Experience analyzing data to capture, process, and organize it to uncover actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical execution of the New Glenn 9x4 GS1 forward module.
- Lead and coordinate test and build campaigns across multiple operational sites.
- Manage stakeholders across engineering, supply chain, safety, operations, launch, maintenance, and IT.
- Coordinate the design, development, testing, and deployment of features into production across multiple technical teams.
- Create and track project milestones, risks, and dependencies; own and prioritize technical requirements associated with delivery.
- Understand system design details, customer interfaces, and system dependencies.
- Develop implementation plans across teams and report progress against technical milestones to stakeholders.
- Understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and the rationale behind decisions.
- Review metrics and seek improved data and mechanisms to provide visibility.
- Ensure programs remain aligned with organizational goals and stakeholder needs.
- Facilitate discussions that lead to clear decisions and partner with customers and internal and external teams to determine project sequencing.
- Write effective narratives and program updates and present them to stakeholders and management.
- Create plans with measurable success criteria and return on investment; address gaps between teams, processes, systems, and architectures.
- Resolve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
- Help teams reduce common failure risks, including unclear requirements, ineffective cross-team collaboration, third-party technology impacts, unprotected APIs, and insufficient testing or QA.
- Escalate appropriately and balance business needs against technical constraints.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- 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
- Paid time off of up to four weeks 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 based on individual contributions and company results.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
