Blue Origin · 15 hours ago
Fluids Systems Engineer III - New Glenn Stage 2
Greater Seattle Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$111K/yr - $155K/yr
5+ years expBlue Origin is working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Fluids Systems Engineer III will support the development and operations of the New Glenn heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, focusing on systems engineering activities, risk management, and ensuring safe human spaceflight.
AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Support Vehicle and Ground System Project Leads by carrying out systems engineering activities in accordance with Blue Origin standards and practices
Build detailed CONOPS for pre-launch and flight operations
Requirements authoring, decomposition, analysis, traceability, and verification
Negotiate interfaces and coordinate between internal and external customers
Develop and implement verification plans and strategies to complete verification of requirements
Define operational constraints for the end-to-end safe handling and successful operation of the subsystem
Lead gated reviews and support New Glenn program and element level gated reviews
Author and maintain system safety documentation such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA); Architecture Safety Assessments (ASA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), and Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECAs)
Collaborate with integrated test, launch operations, and autonomous flight operations customer teams to incorporate operational constraints into downstream procedures and flight plans
Provide real-time engineering anomaly resolution during integrated test and launch operations
Qualification
Required
Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace engineering or other technical field
5+ years of current technical hands-on experience in: Fluids, Thermal, Propulsion, Cryogenics, Pneumatics
Technical hands-on experience in at least one of these areas: Analysis, Design, Testing, launch operations
Hands-on experience in developing, authoring, and implementing integrated tests or operating launch vehicles
A passion for understanding the bigger picture
Good written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work effectively in teams as well as lead through influence
Experience in system engineering on launch vehicles, spacecraft, or in other highly regulated industries
Experience writing or consuming requirements
Ability to operate, make decisions, lead, and make forward progress in ambiguous environments
Preferred
Launch vehicle controller (front room or engineering back room) experience
Experience with system safety
System integration experience, preferably with aerospace hardware
Knowledge of current systems engineering processes and methodologies
Experience with DOORS Next Generation or equivalent requirements management software
Experience in reliability, maintainability and operability analysis and execution
Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA
Benefits
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%
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.
Company
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is an aerospace company that focuses on lowering the cost of spaceflight and helping to explore the solar system.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$185.35MKey Investors
NASAUnited States Space Force
2024-02-20Secondary Market
2024-01-24Undisclosed· $18M
2021-12-03Grant· $130M
Leadership Team
David Limp
Chief Executive Officer
Tim Collins
Vice President, Global Supply Chain
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