Senior Spacecraft Systems Lead - TS/SCI Clearance

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance provided

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a seasoned spacecraft systems leader to deliver a spacecraft bus for national security missions. You will guide the team through design updates, integration, and delivery to the launch base, coordinating closely with mission system, ground system, and payload engineers.

You will own signature authority for engineering changes, drive risk decisions, and mentor engineers while interfacing with customers to translate requirements into cost, schedule, and technical plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of aerospace craft, development, and launch experience.
• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary technical teams delivering flight hardware or software.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and use of trade study methods.
• Leadership or management background with mentoring experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Top Secret/SCI clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the spacecraft development team on your mission to achieve the technical and programmatic objectives of the spacecraft.
• Define and lead the weekly technical rhythm of your team by planning design cycles and the spacecraft production, integration and test schedule.
• Prioritize tasking of the engineers supporting your mission and work to deconflict competing resources across multiple missions and spacecraft.
• Coordinate with mission system, ground system, launch system, and payload engineers executing the entire mission.
• Signature authority for spacecraft level engineering changes, risk dispositions, nonconformances, and failure review boards.
• Act as primary technical interface to customers for spacecraft development.
• Flow down customer demands from the program manager while providing cost, schedule, technical, and resource impacts so that priority decisions can be made at the appropriate program or business unit level.

Skills

Team leadership

Systems engineering

Spacecraft design

Trade studies

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a seasoned spacecraft systems leader to deliver a spacecraft bus for national security missions. You will guide the team through design updates, integration, and delivery to the launch base, coordinating closely with mission system, ground system, and payload engineers.

You will own signature authority for engineering changes, drive risk decisions, and mentor engineers while interfacing with customers to translate requirements into cost, schedule, and technical plans.