Senior NPI Systems Engineer – High-Rate Space Production

Blue Origin; Central (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 25% of the time

Interviews include a technical/Assess

Job summary

Blue Origin’s ACE team seeks a senior engineer to own end-to-end integration verification for NPI solar array lines transitioning to high-rate production. You will write models, work on the shop floor with machinery and instrumentation, and define architecture to enable scalable, production-ready systems.

You will partner with design, operations, and mission assurance to deliver verifiable rate production evidence, while maintaining interfaces across processes and driving producibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years in manufacturing, industrial, process, or production engineering (or 5+ years with advanced degree).
• Experience industrializing a product into higher-rate production, including hands-on work with automated production equipment.
• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-stage value stream as a system — flow, takt balance, aggregate capability, and the interfaces between stages.
• Hands-on experience building and defending quantitative models of a production system: capacity, availability, throughput, and process capability.
• Technical credibility with specialist process and equipment engineers — the depth to challenge capability claims, automation feasibility, and supplier specifications.
• Ability to verify and influence work owned by other teams without direct line authority, and to communicate findings that change design and capital decisions.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end integration verification of the NPI value stream, and the interfaces between process areas — material handoff, fixture and datum compatibility, data continuity, environmental constraints, storage and transport
• Build and maintain the capacity, availability, and throughput models that determine whether the value stream closes at rate; identify the constraint and the capital decisions rate capability depends on
• Characterize how the integrated system actually behaves, hands-on with developing and implementing instrumentation, including how variation in one process area propagates to yield and throughput downstream
• Establish the rate conditions design, processes, and equipment must be verified against — takt, capability and availability targets, test throughput, sampling posture, capacity margin — and the verification methods that close them
• Author the production architecture requirements that make those targets achievable: how far each process can be modularized, how much capacity margin is needed, and how sameness between parallel modules is specified, verified, and controlled
• Derive the rate and interface requirements that equipment and tooling specifications must satisfy, and co-author critical capital specifications with the responsible process and GSE engineers
• Build producibility feedback tooling that quantifies the production consequence of a design choice early enough to influence the design
• Carry proven changes from NPI toward production with process capability evidence, and support the technical risk work behind them — PFMEA linkage, escape exposure, detection latency, requalification impact
• Partner with design engineering on producibility trades, Operations on production architecture and module commissioning, and mission assurance on acceptance test strategy at rate

Skills

Industrial engineering

Manufacturing engineering

Process engineering

Data modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Mechanical/Electrical/Systems Engineering

Job description

Blue Origin’s ACE team seeks a senior engineer to own end-to-end integration verification for NPI solar array lines transitioning to high-rate production. You will write models, work on the shop floor with machinery and instrumentation, and define architecture to enable scalable, production-ready systems.

You will partner with design, operations, and mission assurance to deliver verifiable rate production evidence, while maintaining interfaces across processes and driving producibility