Embedded Automation Architect - Factory Automation Group

Blue Origin; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin in Huntsville seeks an Embedded Automation Architect within Operations. You will own the automation roadmap for your business unit, decide what to automate, and lead make-versus-buy decisions across manufacturing and supply chain.

This is an architect/technical-lead role: you set the direction for AI-enabled automation, while engineers execute. You’ll shepherd projects from concept to production and measure impact by recurring cost savings and roadmap progress.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading automation strategy for manufacturing or production environments.
• Ability to develop multi-year automation roadmaps and cross-functional leadership.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled automation and systems integration.

Responsibilities

• Own the automation roadmap for the assigned business unit and drive its execution.
• Decide what to automate vs. buy and shepherd projects from concept to production.
• Set the technical direction for AI-enabled automation and coordinate with engineers.

Skills

Automation strategy

Leadership

Roadmap planning

AI-enabled automation

Controls engineering

Tools

PLC/SCADA

HMI

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