Senior GN&C Systems Engineer – Spaceflight

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 98,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a spacecraft systems engineer for GN&C to derive and develop subsystem requirements, perform analyses, and maintain budgets and performance metrics across interfaces with propulsion, structures, and dynamics teams.

You will conduct simulations and develop tools for verification, including hardware-in-the-loop and on-vehicle models, using Simulink and C/C++. Clear written and verbal communication and a passion for safe human spaceflight are essential.

Qualifications

• BS in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering.
• MS/PhD focused on GN&C requirements, interfaces, trades and analyses.
• Experience modeling GN&C components and evaluating performance via simulation or tests.

Responsibilities

• Derive and develop subsystem requirements, perform analyses and trades to validate requirements, and maintain subsystem specification, budgets and performance metrics.
• Collaborate with other subsystems and spacecraft systems engineers to support define subsystem boundaries and interfaces.
• Develop simulations and tools necessary for verification of subsystem functionalities.
• Support verification and testing, ensuring the subsystem complies to its requirements.
• Developing and integrating multidisciplinary models for a multi-vehicle simulation using Simulink and C/C++.

Skills

GN&C modeling

Systems engineering

Simulation

Control theory basics

Education

B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering

MS or PhD in aerospace engineering or related field

Tools

Matlab/Simulink

Rust

C/C++

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a spacecraft systems engineer for GN&C to derive and develop subsystem requirements, perform analyses, and maintain budgets and performance metrics across interfaces with propulsion, structures, and dynamics teams.

You will conduct simulations and develop tools for verification, including hardware-in-the-loop and on-vehicle models, using Simulink and C/C++. Clear written and verbal communication and a passion for safe human spaceflight are essential.