Senior Spaceflight Systems Engineer

Blue Origin; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company based in Southern California, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to own mission-level system architecture and lead multi-disciplinary teams in rapid design, build and test cycles for robotic spaceflight systems.

You will manage requirements, interfaces, and performance budgets, coordinate with program managers, and serve as the primary technical contact for customers while ensuring reliability and lifecycle integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in design, development, fabrication and test of complex systems.
• Experience owning the full design cycle across multiple functional areas.
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or eligible to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Translate mission objectives into a verifiable, pragmatic system architecture.
• Own system requirements, ICDs, and performance budgets throughout the lifecycle.
• Partner with program managers to balance technical scope, schedule and budget.
• Act as the primary technical interface to the customer and lead cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to design, analysis, integration and test activities, writing verification plans.
• Own system risk register and lead root-cause analysis for anomalies during integration and test.

Skills

System engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Requirements management

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

Job description

Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company based in Southern California, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to own mission-level system architecture and lead multi-disciplinary teams in rapid design, build and test cycles for robotic spaceflight systems.

You will manage requirements, interfaces, and performance budgets, coordinate with program managers, and serve as the primary technical contact for customers while ensuring reliability and lifecycle integrity.