System Engineer III
About The Position
This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, Blue Origin’s heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. The System Engineer III drives technical execution for the New Glenn 9x4 GS1 forward module and leads and coordinates test and build campaigns across multiple operational sites. The role manages stakeholders across engineering, supply chain, safety, operations, launch, maintenance, and IT, and supports cross-team collaboration through a broad understanding of Forward Module systems. The position coordinates the design, development, testing, and deployment of features across technical teams. It owns technical requirements and implementation planning, tracks milestones, risks, and dependencies, and reports progress to stakeholders. The role requires breaking complex integration work into manageable plans, schedules, and documentation; balancing business needs and technical constraints; and aligning stakeholder needs and programs with organizational goals. It also involves identifying and mitigating risks, monitoring metrics, facilitating decisions, and communicating program updates and narratives to stakeholders and management. The role seeks an organized, communicative, quality-focused leader with sound judgment, negotiation and influencing skills, analytical ability, and a commitment to safe human spaceflight. Passion for Blue Origin’s mission and vision is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent.
- At least 8 years of technical product or program management experience working directly with software engineering teams.
- At least 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, excellent communication and leadership skills, and commitment to quality.
- Passion for Blue Origin’s mission and vision.
Nice To Haves
- At least 8 years of project management experience covering scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical path management.
- At least 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 of delivering results for large cross-functional initiatives while managing competing priorities.
- Excellent understanding of organizational goals and objectives.
- Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
- Experience using data analysis to capture, process, and organize data to uncover actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Drive program technical execution of the New Glenn 9x4 GS1 forward module.
- Lead and coordinate test and build campaigns across multiple operational sites.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders across engineering, supply chain, safety, operations, launch, maintenance, and IT.
- Coordinate the design, development, testing, and deployment of features into production across technical teams.
- Create and track project milestones, risks, and dependencies; describe, own, and prioritize technical requirements for delivery.
- Understand system design details, customer interfaces, system dependencies, business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and decision rationale.
- Develop implementation plans across teams and report progress against technical milestones to stakeholders.
- Review metrics and improve data and mechanisms that provide visibility.
- Keep programs aligned with organizational goals and align stakeholder needs through discussions that lead to clear decisions.
- Partner with customers and internal or external teams to determine project sequencing and priorities.
- Write program narratives and updates and present them to stakeholders and management.
- Create plans with measurable success criteria and return on investment, and oversee gaps between teams, processes, systems, and system architectures.
- Identify and mitigate ambiguous problems and risks before they become roadblocks; use judgment about when and how to escalate.
- Help teams reduce exposure to failure modes, including unclear or undocumented requirements, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impacts of third-party technologies, unprotected APIs, and insufficient testing or QA.
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
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year, based on weekly scheduled hours
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Depending on role type and job level, possible benefits and bonuses tied to individual contributions or company results; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
