Embedded Automation Architect - Factory Automation Group

Blue Origin; Florida; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Employee stock options

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks an Embedded Automation Architect to define and lead the multi-year automation strategy for one of its business units. You will set technical direction, determine automation priorities, and guide hands-on controls and engineers to execution across production sites.

You will work with the central Factory Automation Group to shepherd projects from concept to production, focusing on cost reduction and AI-enabled improvements that enhance reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience defining long-term automation roadmaps.
• Ability to influence multiple engineering teams.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and articulate the multi-year automation roadmap for a business unit.
• Decide what to automate and in what order; drive make-versus-buy decisions.
• shepherd projects from concept through production with central teams.
• Set the technical direction for AI-enabled automation and oversee cost reductions.

Skills

Automation strategy

Technical leadership

Roadmap planning

AI-enabled automation

Tools

PLC programming

SCADA

ML frameworks

Job description

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 Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

The Embedded Automation Architect sits within a specific Blue Origin business unit (New Glenn, Engines, Lunar, In-Space Systems, or a production site) while reporting into the central Factory Automation Group. You are the single point of automation strategy for that business unit: you build its complete multi-year automation roadmap against Blue's shared automation backbone, decide what to automate and in what order, resolve make-versus-buy, and shepherd projects from concept through the central Factory Automation build teams to production.

This is an architect and technical-leadership role, not a single-cell build role - you will set the technical direction that hands-on controls and mechanical engineers then execute, and you will be measured on the roadmap you originate and the recurring cost your automation removes, not on machines you personally wire. You set the technical direction - increasingly AI-enabled - for how a business unit's work gets automated, from machine-generated programming through in-process ML quality to the reasoning layers behind automated part buyoff, and you work AI