Payload Interface Lead for Lunar Cargo Delivery

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Short and long-term disability

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

14 company-paid holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a HDL Cargo Integration Lead to serve as the Single Threaded Leader for integrating the Lunar Surface Habitat with the HDL for lunar missions. You will coordinate interfaces with international providers, plan verification, and work across MK2, NASA, and production teams to ensure safe, compliant payload delivery.

You will guide trade studies, define testing environments, and drive milestone schedules, while ensuring safety reviews and export controls are adhered to

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 that balance 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.

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.

Skills

Payload integration

Systems engineering lifecycle

Requirements management

Interface definitions

Trade studies

NASA safety processes

Cross-organizational collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a HDL Cargo Integration Lead to serve as the Single Threaded Leader for integrating the Lunar Surface Habitat with the HDL for lunar missions. You will coordinate interfaces with international providers, plan verification, and work across MK2, NASA, and production teams to ensure safe, compliant payload delivery.

You will guide trade studies, define testing environments, and drive milestone schedules, while ensuring safety reviews and export controls are adhered to