Senior Spaceflight Structural Design Engineer

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Mechanical/Structural Engineer to lead design, analysis, and release of structural components for Stage1 Tanks on the New Glenn program. You will plan, size, and validate structures, working with multi‑functional teams across sites to ensure manufacturability and on‑time delivery.

The role requires a BS in engineering, 3–5+ years of experience, strong FEA and CAD skills, and travel up to 20% to supplier sites and manufacturing facilities in Florida.

Qualifications

• BS degree in mechanical, structural, or other relevant engineering field.
• 3-5+ years in professional engineering experience.
• Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials, stress/strain, statics, structures sizing and finite element analysis.
• This position is expected to perform both design and preliminary sizing of structures.
• Experience with large primary or secondary structures.
• Experience with material selection, compatibility, and metallic manufacturing techniques & product forms (e.g. sheet metal, machining, etc).
• Familiarity with tolerance, GD&Ts and design for manufacturability.
• Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D CAD software.
• Strong product data management (PDM) skills (e.g. Windchill, TeamCenter, etc).
• Hands on experience with hardware “on the production floor” and/or “in service”.
• Ability to travel 0%-20% of the year to Suppliers and Manufacturing Facility in FL to support manufacturing as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering scope to close including planning, design, structural analysis, engineering release, procurement, and test.
• Ownership of the entire design cycle of structure components, including conceptual and detailed design, trade studies, structural analysis, build, development testing, and qualification.
• Develop, release, and maintain a full CAD and drawing engineering definition package.
• Support procurement activities to support vehicle build schedules.
• Support integrated test objectives, data review, and reporting.
• Perform or facilitate emergent analysis for non-conformances.
• Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.
• Work with multi-functional teams across multiple work sites that include design, analysis, materials, processes, structures, fluids, systems, procurement, and manufacturing.

Skills

Mechanical design

Finite element analysis

3D CAD

PDM (Windchill/TeamCenter)

Tolerance & GD&T

Manufacturing processes

Travel 0-20%

Education

BS in mechanical/structural engineering

Tools

Windchill

TeamCenter

ANSYS/Nastran/Optistruct

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Mechanical/Structural Engineer to lead design, analysis, and release of structural components for Stage1 Tanks on the New Glenn program. You will plan, size, and validate structures, working with multi‑functional teams across sites to ensure manufacturability and on‑time delivery.

The role requires a BS in engineering, 3–5+ years of experience, strong FEA and CAD skills, and travel up to 20% to supplier sites and manufacturing facilities in Florida.