Aerospace Systems Engineer II - Blue Ring Space Vehicle Requirements & Verification Architect

Application close date:

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Blue National Security (BNS), where our focus is the design, development, and delivery of launch and spacecraft systems for national security missions. Through Blue Ring, our all-in-one, high-powered hybrid solar-electric and chemical-propelled spacecraft, we provide unmatched mission maneuverability, versatility, and capacity at dramatically lower-profile costs.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of the Blue National Security business unit, which is focused on addressing two of the most compelling challenges in spaceflight today: space infrastructure and increasing mobility on-orbit. We are looking for someone to apply their vision, passion, technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Join us in enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit earth - passion for our mission is required!

As the Space Vehicle Requirements & Verification Architect on a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will define, capture and manage mission-specific system requirements and verification artifacts within the Blue Ring Systems Engineering, Integration & Test organization, working closely with other system, software, hardware and integration & test engineers to establish the Verification & Validation plans & strategies that will ensure the successful verification of unique Blue Ring Spacecraft missions and customer needs. This position reports to the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Requirements, Verification & Architecture Director for the space mobility product line. You will work at a spacecraft mission & system level with a focus on system verification for Blue Ring architectural product line variants, including all critical spacecraft bus, ground system and payload requirements and interfaces, in a model-based environment.

This position is responsible for ensuring the generation and aggregation of V&V data from the integration of the spacecraft bus to payloads, ground system, and launch vehicle, and ultimately delivering a fully qualified system to our customers that is ready for launch. This role will begin with a first-of-its-kind space vehicle in development and grow with the product line through multiple missions and objectives, beginning with program startup for a unique new customer mission.

Special Mentions:

• •Relocation provided
• •10-15% travel required

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• •Perform as the Mission Requirements & Verification Lead for a critical Blue Ring customer mission, including all aspects of requirement decomposition, derivation, and allocation
• •Collaborate with the Blue Ring Mission Lead Systems Engineers, Spacecraft Systems Engineering, Flight Software, Payload & Mission Integration, and Ground Systems Engineering Teams to define system and mission verification plans across multiple customers and missions
• •Engage with internal and external customers, including government agencies and contractors, to perform analysis of unique customer and mission requirements and verification needs
• •Develop and manage requirements and verification modules, including internal and external interfaces, with accurate flow-down and traceability
• •Understand and define the relationships and traceability between requirements, design parameters, technical budgets, ICDs, program plans, and technical performance measures
• •Establish verification approaches and plans for system requirements and identify Integration and Test activities required for successful requirements selloff
• •Work across organizational boundaries to manage the successful acquisition of verification data necessary to show compliance to system requirements
• •Perform compliance and traceability assessments and be able to report key metrics and issues effectively to program leadership and stakeholders
• •Create and own system-level spacecraft verification plans and execution
• •Support launch site system testing, including payload and launch vehicle integration
• •Develop product line verification plans and roll-up deliverables
• •Deliver verification reports that ensure launch and operational readiness
• •Ensure all payload interface requirements are met and spacecraft is ready for count-down
• •Verify end-to-end functionality of system including ground system compatibility

Minimum Qualifications:

• •Minimum of a B.S in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical or Software engineering, or equivalent technical field
• •Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, etc.
• •5+ or more years of space system development or test engineering experience
• •2+ or more years of spacecraft verification experience
• •Demonstrated experience performing activities such as requirements definition, traceability, interface definition, design documentation, integration, verification, and validation
• •Background in creating requirement verification reports and roll-up verification of lower level requirements to system level sell-off
• •Experience across the Systems Engineering lifecycle and the “Systems Engineering V”
• •Proven problem-solving skills
• •Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• •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.
• •Ability to obtain a US Government Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) Clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• •Spacecraft operations, command & control system experience, including familiarity with spacecraft and ground-system internal and external interfaces and/or spacecraft communications uplink and downlink technologies
• •Spaceflight and mission operations experience including CONOPs development
• •Product line engineering experience
• •Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering
• •Familiarity with System Modeling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, MagicDraw, or Rhapsody
• •Software or scripting language experience
• •Knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA
• •Familiarity with formal risk and opportunity management processes
• •Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture or a related discipline

Base Pay Range for:

VA applicants is $99,201.00 - $138,880.35
CO applicants is $90,934.00 - $127,307.25

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Background Check

• •Required for all positions: Blue’s Standard Background Check
• •Required for Certain