Jobs at Blue Origin

Leads the electrical architecture and development of optical inter-satellite link terminal electronics for classified beyond-LEO missions. Responsibilities include FPGA signal processing, high-speed digital and mixed-signal circuit design, laser and detector interfaces, timing and synchronization, radiation-tolerant electronics, PCB signal integrity, verification, environmental qualification, and anomaly resolution. The role also supports classified design reviews, government customer engagement, and mentorship of multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Designs and optimizes thin-film optical coatings for space vehicles, sensors, laser communication systems, and other flight hardware. Develops PVD processes, performs optical metrology and environmental qualification testing, troubleshoots coating defects, improves production yield, and transfers prototypes into manufacturing. The role also supports supplier qualification, documentation, aerospace quality compliance, and cross-functional integration of flight-qualified optical components.

Develop and operate autonomy software for the New Glenn launch vehicle. Responsibilities include defining software behaviors, architecting requirements, verification and validation, simulation and hardware testing, data analysis, release readiness, avionics integration, test procedures, issue resolution, tooling development, and real-time mission support.

Designs and releases mechanical layouts, detail parts, assemblies, drawings, and model-based definition datasets for the MK1 lunar lander. Supports spacecraft fluid-system design, tube routing, component mounting, CAD assembly and BOM management, drawing reviews, tolerancing, material and manufacturing-process selection, and design-for-manufacturability efforts using Creo Parametric and Windchill.

Designs and operates secure GitLab CI/CD pipelines for flight software, including build, testing, artifact promotion, release, vulnerability scanning, SBOMs, and signed artifacts. Secures reproducible build systems and container environments across classified, closed, and offline settings. Establishes DevSecOps standards, compliance evidence, and software supply-chain controls while partnering with developers, SRE, security, and test teams. The role also supports integration activities and mentors junior engineers.

Leads mission assurance for Blue Origin’s Human Landing System, providing independent oversight of safety, quality, reliability, risk, and mission success across design, testing, launch, certification, and crewed lunar operations. Directs matrixed technical teams, establishes risk thresholds, oversees analyses and anomaly investigations, supports readiness reviews, interfaces with NASA, manages organizational strategy and change, and reports performance metrics to executive leadership.

Manage software configurations, baselines, audits, change control boards, and build and release processes for flight-critical lunar mission software. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and mission assurance teams; guide configuration management practices; support milestone reviews; and maintain processes compliant with aerospace software standards including AS9115, DO-178, and DO-254.

Conduct thermal and fluids analysis for Blue Moon lunar lander systems across design, build, test, and integration. Develop and modify thermo-fluid models, validate them against component and vehicle test data, perform system-level trade studies, analyze results, document findings in Windchill, and present recommendations to engineering stakeholders. The role focuses on propulsion, cryogenic, gaseous, and spacecraft fluid systems.

Manages engineering project planning, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, change orders, documentation, and customer communications. Ensures projects meet technical, quality, safety, and product assurance requirements while coordinating cross-disciplinary teams and reporting progress to stakeholders. The role requires an engineering degree and more than five years of aerospace or defense experience in product design, manufacturing, industrial engineering, or sustaining engineering.

Lead and coordinate spacecraft Transfer Stage integration across engineering, supply chain, and operations. Plan design release, manage BOM/MRP demand, track engineering release dates, develop procurement packages, interface with NASA, mitigate risks, and report program metrics to enable timely build and delivery.

Designs, integrates, simulates, commissions, and supports bespoke industrial automation systems for aerospace manufacturing. Responsibilities include control architecture, PLC/HMI/robot programming, safety systems, equipment integration, virtual commissioning, electrical design, factory acceptance testing, documentation, installation, and production ramp-up. The role leads projects from concept through operational deployment while coordinating applications engineers, fabricators, installers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Leads integration of Blue National Security common products across platforms and business units. Aligns technical requirements, interfaces, performance, schedules, and design decisions; tracks and resolves cross-team risks and issues; coordinates systems engineering and development teams; and reports integration status to senior leadership. Requires aerospace or systems integration experience, strong communication, requirements management, and the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams.

Design, develop, simulate, and verify FPGA firmware for COMSEC/secure communications. Perform synthesis, place-and-route, timing analysis, integration, hardware bring-up, debugging, and documentation while collaborating with hardware and systems teams.

Lead the development, integration, verification, validation, testing, and deployment of RF communications and Ground Data Systems for spacecraft missions. Define system architectures, requirements, interfaces, link budgets, and operational processes across space-to-ground networks. Collaborate with flight, software, mission systems, integration teams, vendors, and ground station providers. Support product releases, training, commissioning, and flight operations for national security, civil, commercial, lunar, cislunar, and deep-space missions.

Designs, develops, and maintains secure network and communications security systems. Responsibilities include defining requirements, interfaces, and performance parameters; collaborating with electrical hardware and systems engineering teams; conducting trade studies and design reviews; troubleshooting complex network issues; ensuring compliance with security standards; and producing technical specifications, interface documents, and test plans.

Lead fluids and propulsion systems engineering for Blue Origin’s MK1 lunar lander. Responsibilities include subsystem trade studies, component design and integration, first-order analysis, architecture and schematic updates, systems engineering across the full development lifecycle, and test support. The role integrates fluids and propulsion with vehicle design, software, operations, safety, verification, and configuration management while providing technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional coordination.

Designs and develops high-reliability mixed-signal, RF, analog, digital, and power electronics for space-rated communications systems. Owns products from concept through manufacturing, testing, and flight readiness, including PCB design, power management, worst-case analysis, documentation, lab validation, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. Collaborates with mechanical, thermal, software, systems, integration, manufacturing, procurement, and technical program management teams.

Leads optical architecture and development for classified optical inter-satellite link terminals. Designs and integrates space-grade photonic avionics, performs optical modeling, link budgets, environmental and reliability analysis, and oversees qualification testing. Collaborates across engineering teams, suppliers, and vendors; supports design reviews, requirements verification, technical documentation, and fault analyses. Mentors junior engineers and ensures compliance with NASA, MIL-STD, and company standards.

Monitors, investigates, and responds to cyber threats across classified enclaves, mission ground systems, and laboratories. Responsibilities include SIEM and EDR alert triage, incident response, threat hunting, audit and insider-threat reviews, mission-event monitoring, sensor deployment, log onboarding, detection tuning, playbook improvement, and automation. The analyst works with senior engineers and supports national-security cyber defense operations in onsite classified environments.

Lead aerospace systems engineering and technical program activities for motion-control products. Responsibilities include architecting closed-loop control systems, developing and tracing requirements, managing technical risks, supporting verification and validation, presenting technical content, and collaborating with manufacturing, quality, and test teams. The role requires delivering functional flight hardware and supporting safe human spaceflight programs.