Systems Engineer - Risk and Safety

Blue Origin•Denver, WA

22h

About The Position

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. We are a hardworking team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. As part of the New Glenn SEIT system safety, reliability and risk team, you will work to develop processes and products for the design and evaluation of the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle system and facilities. You must have a passion for mission assurance, a commitment to the fundamentals of system safety, and a strong capacity to work collaboratively on complex and interesting new problems. You will lead risk management projects to coordinate design teams, propose risk mitigation efforts, and support integrated solutions. You will utilize system engineering practices across disciplines predicated to a high degree on your technical skills, ensure consistent system engineering implementations across the New Glenn elements and subsystems, and serve in a system integration capacity working with multi-discipline teams to arrive at technical system solutions. Additionally, this role requires understanding and supporting requirements analysis and traceability, functional analysis, systems analysis, safety analysis, technical performance monitoring, developing strategies and approaches for specialty engineering (operability, reliability, maintainability, supportability) and system product life cycle processes. You will support the alignment and consistent implementation of New Glenn system engineering practices for system to lower-level program tiers as well as across program systems. You will also help develop health metrics to support insight into program health and tracking to major milestones.

Requirements

Minimum of a B.S. degree in aerospace/electrical/mechanical engineering or related field
5+ years engineering experience in the aerospace industry
Strong system safety, Risk, and mission assurance fundamentals
Experience interpreting and assessing compliance to regulatory requirements and guidance.
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
Ability to identify problems, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions
Ability to work independently and as part of a team on rapid development programs
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

3+ years risk management experience
Familiarity with system safety or reliability engineering experience performing FHAs, PSSAs, FMEA/FMECAs, FTAs, & CCAs
Experience performing compliance assessments and tailoring of FAA and Range Safety launch system requirements
Experience with a variety of complex aerospace or launch vehicle systems
Process ownership and maintenance experience

Responsibilities

Evaluate and perform reviews of system risks suggesting technical solutions to complex problems.
Evaluate products and requirements for compliance with our system safety processes and products against internal and external standards including Range Safety, NASA, FAA, MIL-STD-882, or ARP-4761 .
Implement and maintain risk and safety processes and identify continuous improvement opportunities
Train and coach engineers on identifying and analyzing system risks
Work with systems engineering and subsystem cognizant engineers to identify and verify compliance with system safety requirements.
Assist in generating metrics and report on program system status
Participate in actively maintaining a healthy system safety culture