Senior System Operations Integrator

Blue Origin; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 145,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a seasoned engineer to support New Glenn operations, system integration, and test activities. The role focuses on constraining, validating, and coordinating requirements across design, test, and flight hardware to ensure safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Ideal candidates bring strong aerospace engineering background, hands-on integration experience, and excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams in a demanding environment.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, or related field).
• 7+ years of proven experience in Aerospace or large-scale system integration.
• Understanding of system engineering principles and processes.
• Experience in analysis, design, or integrated testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-directed with ability to balance multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Ensure launch vehicle, ground equipment, and personnel are ready for all mission phases.
• Serve as technical point of contact for design, test, software, operations, and refurbishment artifacts.
• Decompose the time-phased Sequence of Operations into operational constraints, alerts, and limits.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and integration of operating requirements into procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.
• Provide real-time on console support for integrated tests, launch and recovery operations, providing crucial troubleshooting support.
• Assess, identify and support fixes to gaps or optimizations in system operational timeline.
• Understand how subsystem control software operates across flight and ground systems to ensure safety and mission success.
• Provide operational feedback to subsystem designers and support operational analysis

Skills

System engineering

Technical communication

Multitasking

Education

B.S. in engineering

Tools

DOORS Next Gen

Job description

Application close date

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, engineers, you will contribute to the development, integration, and implementation of the New Glenn operational architecture. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of the New Glenn System-spanning CONOPS, functional architecture, components, software, and system-level interactions. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Working closely with System Operations Integration lead, and you will create a comprehensive set of constraints, alerts, and limits for the New Glenn test and launch teams. The ideal candidate is highly diligent and future thinking, can handle a broad set of sophisticated data, and has a deep passion for Blue Origin's mission of "Millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth".

Responsibilities

• Ensure the launch vehicle, ground equipment, and personnel are readied for all phases of the New Glenn mission including build, test, pre-launch, boost, orbital operations landing, and recovery.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for design, test, software, operations, and refurbishment artifacts.
• Decompose the time-phased Sequence of Operations into operational constraints, alerts, and limits.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and appropriate integration of operating requirements into procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.
• Provide real-time on console support for integrated tests, launch and recovery operations providing crucial troubleshooting support.
• Assess, identify and support fixes to gaps or optimizations in system operational timeline
• Understand how subsystem control software operates across flight and ground systems to ensure safety and mission success.
• Provide operational feedback to subsystem designers and support operational analysis

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, or related field) or another technical field
• 7+ years of proven experience in Aerospace or large scale system integration
• Demonstrated understanding of system engineering principles and processes
• Experience in at least one of the areas of analysis, design, or integrated testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-directed and capable of balancing several tasks at one time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in system development and integration, preferably with aerospace flight hardware
• Hands-on system integration experience; familiar with test, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
• Knowledge of fluid system design, including P&ID development
• Familiarity with current systems engineering and integration tools and methodologies
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as DOORS Next Gen

Base Pay Range for

WA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Background Check

• Required for all positions: Blue's Standard Background Check
• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation
• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of ha