Spacecraft Lead & Technical Director

Blue Origin LLC; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 207,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in Colorado is seeking a Spacecraft Lead - Director to own end-to-end spacecraft design from concept through production and flight.

The role leads propulsion, power, thermal, flight software, and comms, defines GNC authority, manages a 15+ engineering team, and partners with Compute Lead to integrate compute hardware. A Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and US citizenship are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Experience coordinating across multiple subsystem teams (propulsion, comms, power, mechanisms, GNC).
• Hands-on capability in spacecraft design and build (thermal/mechanical/software/GNC).
• Experience leading and mentoring junior engineers while staying hands-on.
• Experience managing integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical paths.

Responsibilities

• Deliver flight hardware end to end from concept through manufacturing, integration, test, qualification, and launch.
• Own the end-to-end spacecraft lifecycle from 0->1 and 1->n.
• Develop and oversee propulsion, power, thermal, software, and communications subsystems.
• Define guidance, navigation, and control for launch to deployment and collision avoidance.
• Develop verification and validation campaigns from component to system level.
• Grow and manage a team of engineers and collaborate with Compute Lead for integration.
• Present designs and analyses to leadership and stakeholders.
• Own roadmap and product improvements for successive spacecraft as the program matures.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

GNC

Leadership

Roadmapping

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in Colorado is seeking a Spacecraft Lead - Director to own end-to-end spacecraft design from concept through production and flight.

The role leads propulsion, power, thermal, flight software, and comms, defines GNC authority, manages a 15+ engineering team, and partners with Compute Lead to integrate compute hardware. A Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and US citizenship are required.