Senior Satellite & Payload Reliability Engineer

Blue Origin; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Up to 15% as program needs require

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF/optical payloads, avionics, and related systems. You will translate mission objectives into reliability requirements, develop analyses, and support verification across a high-rate constellation lifecycle.

Responsibilities include reliability predictions, FA/FT analyses, risk communication, and collaboration with system architects to strengthen

Qualifications

• 7+ years of reliability engineering experience in aerospace or high-reliability products.
• Hands-on experience with FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, and reliability predictions.
• Knowledge of spacecraft bus and payload hardware and RF/optical systems.
• Ability to derive verifiable requirements linked to analyses and tests.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute reliability approach across satellites and hardware.
• Derive and allocate reliability requirements from system objectives to hardware and interfaces.
• Create and maintain reliability diagrams, FMEAs/FMECAs, fault trees, and critical-item lists.
• Collaborate with system and hardware architects to improve design robustness.
• Perform reliability predictions and sensitivity studies with data and assumptions clearly stated.
• Quantify reliability/availability impact of trades in architecture and hardware.
• Integrate radiation, degradation, and wear into reliability analyses with cross-team input.
• Define reliability verification plans and support testing across programs.
• Review requirements, drawings, and supplier data for reliability impact.
• Establish metrics and evidence packages for program reviews and readiness.

Skills

Reliability engineering

FMEA/FMECA

Fault-tree analysis

RBDs

Critical-item management

Quantitative reliability prediction

Spacecraft hardware knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s in engineering

Tools

DOORS/Next Gen

Jira

Windchill/PLM

Python

MATLAB

Statistical analysis software

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Reliability Engineer for Satellite and Payloads to serve as the hardware reliability focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF/optical payloads, avionics, and related systems. You will translate mission objectives into reliability requirements, develop analyses, and support verification across a high-rate constellation lifecycle.

Responsibilities include reliability predictions, FA/FT analyses, risk communication, and collaboration with system architects to strengthen