Senior Systems Engineer

BLUE ORIGIN•Los Angeles, CA

7d•$145,188 - $203,263

About The Position

As a Senior Systems Engineer at Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company, you will act as the Responsible Engineer for a robotic spaceflight mission. You will drive delivery of the project’s technical deliverables and be accountable for technical success throughout the project lifecycle. With minimal oversight, you will serve as the primary technical interface to the customer and lead agile, cross-functional teams in rapidly designing, building, and testing novel systems with minimal resources. Honeybee Robotics develops robotic systems for space exploration, including spacecraft and robotic systems for lunar and Martian surface missions and deep-space science instruments. Its teams deliver flight-ready hardware on lean schedules.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
At least 8 years of experience in the design, development, fabrication, and test of complex systems.
Experience owning the full design cycle of a complete system, from requirements through verification, with minimal oversight.
Working knowledge across multiple functional areas, such as avionics, mechanisms, structures, thermal, software, and test, sufficient to challenge assumptions and identify design flaws.
Experience serving as the primary technical contact for customers and on cross-organizational projects, with strong verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.
Experience leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, hardware-centric development environment where technical and schedule decisions are closely linked.
Advanced proficiency in requirements development and management, interface control, verification planning, change control, risk management, anomaly investigation, and supporting tools.
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

Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
Direct experience leading or owning systems on spaceflight missions or programs, with familiarity with NASA or other relevant industry standards and practices for spaceflight systems.
Experience with space robotics systems, including rovers, robotic arms, and/or science instruments.
Ability to work hands-on across the full hardware lifecycle, from bench-level troubleshooting to system-level integration and environmental testing.
Experience mentoring engineers and developing or improving systems engineering processes and tools.

Responsibilities

Translate mission objectives into a verifiable, pragmatic system architecture and lead cross-disciplinary trade studies that balance performance and reliability against schedule and cost.
Own system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and performance budgets throughout the project lifecycle, including validation and verification activities that protect technical margins.
Partner with program managers to manage trade-offs among technical scope, schedule, and budget, and inform program plans with risk assessments, resource needs, and estimates.
Serve as the primary technical interface to the customer, translating evolving needs into verifiable requirements and communicating schedule, cost, and risk impacts of changes.
Contribute hands-on to design, analysis, integration, and test activities; author verification plans and lead test campaigns.
Decompose system goals into actionable tasks and provide daily guidance to a multidisciplinary team.
Own the system technical risk register and lead root-cause analysis and corrective action for integration and test anomalies.
Tailor reliability and safety standards to the mission’s risk posture and ensure the design is robust for spaceflight and planetary environments.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and 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 or company results; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.