Senior Systems Engineer – Spaceflight Verification & Interfaces

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Stock options

Paid time off

Parental leave

Education support program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own and decompose complex vehicle and stage requirements for the VAST family, tracing them through verification. You will define ICDs/IRDs, manage interfaces across fluid, mechanical, electrical, and environmental domains, and drive closure with cross‑functional teams.

You will analyze fleet data, identify trends, and implement changes to improve verification, testing, and design practices while mentoring engineers and improving tools and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing, decomposing, allocating, and tracing requirements through verification.
• Working knowledge of interface management (ICDs/IRDs), qualification testing, and verification methods (test, analysis, inspection, similarity).
• Ability to set a technical plan and drive it to closure across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present trade studies and recommendations to engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own component‑level requirements for VAST common and standard product lines, decomposing and allocating vehicle and stage requirements from GS1, GS2, GS3, Lunar, and Engines customers and tracing them through verification.
• Envelope requirements across multiple customers into common specifications that maximize reuse, and own the trades when one customer’s need drives cost or risk for the rest of the fleet.
• Define and manage component interface control documents (ICDs) covering fluid media, pressures, flow, leakage, electrical/actuation, mechanical, and environmental interfaces.
• Own the verification approach and closure for assigned product lines: verification requirements, methods, qualification‑by‑similarity rationale, and the evidence that requirements are met.
• Mine acceptance, qualification, nonconformance, and flight data across the VAST catalog to find fleet‑wide trends – start‑of‑life vs. end‑of‑life leakage, recurring failure modes, and cost drivers – and convert them into requirement, design, or process changes.
• Support anomaly investigations, RCCA, and MRB disposition for VAST hardware, with a focus on systemic causes that cut across product families.
• Drive tool and process improvements that remove manual steps from requirements, verification, and data workflows – we would rather build the tool that removes the busywork than staff it.
• Help define VAST’s systems engineering standards, templates, and review checklists, and mentor component engineers in requirements and verification practice.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements decomposition

Interface management

Verification

Technical planning

Cross‑functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/Systems/Chemical Engineering

Tools

DOORS/DNG

Jama

Cameo

Windchill

Python

SQL

Databricks

Thermo-fluid tools (SINDA/FLUINT)

REFPROP

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to own and decompose complex vehicle and stage requirements for the VAST family, tracing them through verification. You will define ICDs/IRDs, manage interfaces across fluid, mechanical, electrical, and environmental domains, and drive closure with cross‑functional teams.

You will analyze fleet data, identify trends, and implement changes to improve verification, testing, and design practices while mentoring engineers and improving tools and