Lead Systems Engineer - Spaceflight Verification

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks an experienced systems engineer to own and decompose vehicle requirements across multiple programs, ensuring traceability through verification and across fleet applications. You will manage ICDs, lead verification strategies, and drive data-driven improvements with engineers from several teams.

You will define standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to advance safe human spaceflight, supporting reusable launch vehicle objectives and mission success in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing, decomposing, allocating, and tracing requirements through verification.
• Working knowledge of interface management (ICDs/IRDs), qualification testing, and verification methods (test, analysis, inspection, similarity).
• Ability to set a technical plan and drive it to closure across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present trade studies and recommendations to engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own component-level requirements for VAST common and standard product lines, decomposing and allocating vehicle and stage requirements from GS1, GS2, GS3, Lunar, and Engines customers and tracing them through verification.
• Envelope requirements across multiple customers into common specifications that maximize reuse, and own the trades when one customer’s need drives cost or risk for the rest of the fleet.
• Define and manage component interface control documents (ICDs) covering fluid media, pressures, flow, leakage, electrical/actuation, mechanical, and environmental interfaces.
• Own the verification approach and closure for assigned product lines: verification requirements, methods, qualification-by-similarity rationale, and the evidence that requirements are met.
• Mine acceptance, qualification, nonconformance, and flight data across the VAST catalog to find fleet-wide trends – start-of-life vs. end-of-life leakage, recurring failure modes, and cost drivers – and convert them into requirement, design, or process changes.
• Support anomaly investigations, RCCA, and MRB disposition for VAST hardware, with a focus on systemic causes that cut across product families.
• Drive tool and process improvements that remove manual steps from requirements, verification, and data workflows – we would rather build the tool that removes the busywork than staff it.
• Help define VAST’s systems engineering standards, templates, and review checklists, and mentor component engineers in requirements and verification practice.

Skills

Systems engineering

Interface management

Requirements tracing

Verbal communication

Written communication

Collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/Systems/Chemical Engineering

Master's degree in engineering (preferred)

5+ years systems engineering experience

Tools

DOORS/DNG

Jama

Cameo

Windchill

Python

SQL

Databricks

SINDA/FLUINT

Job description

Blue Origin seeks an experienced systems engineer to own and decompose vehicle requirements across multiple programs, ensuring traceability through verification and across fleet applications. You will manage ICDs, lead verification strategies, and drive data-driven improvements with engineers from several teams.

You will define standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to advance safe human spaceflight, supporting reusable launch vehicle objectives and mission success in a