Principal Spaceflight Systems Engineer

Blue Origin; Altadena (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Stock options

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company in Southern California, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of a robotic spaceflight system. You will lead cross‑functional teams, manage requirements, and interface with customers to ensure success across design, verification, and integration stages.

You will contribute to risk‑driven decisions and drive reliability and safety compliance for spaceflight missions, reporting to the Honeybee leadership and collaborating with Blue

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field (required).
• Experience owning full design cycle from requirements to verification.
• Strong communication skills with customers and cross‑functional teams.
• Proficiency in requirements development, interface control, verification planning and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Translate mission objectives into a verifiable system architecture and lead cross‑disciplinary trade studies.
• Own system requirements, ICDs, and performance budgets with clear validation activities.
• Collaborate with program managers to balance scope, schedule and budget and provide risk assessments.
• Serve as primary technical interface to customers and communicate schedule and cost impacts of changes.
• Lead design, analysis, integration and test activities and author verification plans.
• Decompose system goals into actionable tasks and guide a multi‑discipline team.
• Own system risk register and lead root‑cause analysis for integration/test anomalies.
• Tailor reliability and safety standards to mission risk posture.

Skills

Systems engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Requirements development

Technical communication

Risk management

Verification planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company in Southern California, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of a robotic spaceflight system. You will lead cross‑functional teams, manage requirements, and interface with customers to ensure success across design, verification, and integration stages.

You will contribute to risk‑driven decisions and drive reliability and safety compliance for spaceflight missions, reporting to the Honeybee leadership and collaborating with Blue