Payload Integration Lead, Lunar Cargo Lander

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 134,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Parental leave

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a HDL Cargo Integration Lead to own the payload integration interfaces and drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, mission operations, and external partners. This role focuses on defining environments, verification, and safety processes for the Lunar Surface Habitat payload integrated with the HDL.

Strong leadership and a systems-engineering mindset are essential. The role requires extensive experience in payload integration for spacecraft or launch

Qualifications

• Experience performing payload integration on a spacecraft or launch vehicle.
• Experience with the Systems Engineering lifecycle (requirements, interface definition, verification, validation).
• Experience managing requirements and interface baselines, including negotiating ICDs.
• Experience leading technical trades balancing performance, cost, and schedule.
• Working knowledge of spaceflight environments and integrated analyses (loads, thermal, EMI/EMC).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-organizational teams and external partners without direct reporting authority.
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills, including presenting to senior leadership.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate, define, and deliver the payload interface control document (ICD).
• Define and communicate the payload design environments (launch and landing loads, thermal, vibration and shock, EMI/EMC, contamination), and lead integrated analyses with the provider, including coupled loads, thermal, and mass properties
• Define the payload integration milestones between contract kickoff and launch working with the Mission Manager
• Manage contract deliverables to and from the payload provider and to and from the NASA customer for the payload working with the Mission Manager
• Own interface verification: build the verification matrix, plan fit checks and pathfinder activities, and close out interface verification before shipment
• Oversee definition of the payload operations concept and integrate into the mission flight plan, including landing, surface offload, and payload commissioning
• Lead payload safety integration, including hazard analyses and safety reviews with the provider and NASA, and flow payload requirements into MK2 and New Glenn safety processes
• Plan payload delivery, receiving, ground processing, and launch-site integration, including transport, handling, Ground Support Equipment (GSE), vehicle closeout, facilities, and import logistics for foreign-built flight hardware
• Work with Blue's Trade Compliance team to make sure every exchange of technical data and hardware with the international provider stays within approved export authorizations (for example, TAAs)
• Lead periodic reviews, Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), and recurring integration meetings with the payload provider and NASA, managing the exchange of technical information to advance the payload provider's design.
• Identify, track, and burn down payload integration risks, and report integration status to MK2 and program leadership

Skills

Payload integration

Systems engineering lifecycle

Requirements management

Interface baselines

Trade studies

Spaceflight environments

Cross-organizational collaboration

Communication skills

Bachelor's degree in engineering/scien

8+ years experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or related field

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a HDL Cargo Integration Lead to own the payload integration interfaces and drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, mission operations, and external partners. This role focuses on defining environments, verification, and safety processes for the Lunar Surface Habitat payload integrated with the HDL.

Strong leadership and a systems-engineering mindset are essential. The role requires extensive experience in payload integration for spacecraft or launch