Sr. Systems Engineer - Lunar Human Landing System (HLS)

Blue Origin; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 25%

Job summary

Blue Origin in Los Angeles is seeking a senior systems engineer to own the requirements, safety, and verification baseline for a major vehicle area. You will set technical direction and mentor engineers across IPTs to ensure robust design and traceability.

Responsibilities include leading requirements analysis, architecture decisions, and V&V strategies, including anomaly investigations and root-cause analyses, with a focus on safe, reliable lunar and spaceflight systems.

Qualifications

• Senior systems engineer owning requirements, safety, and verification baseline.
• Leads requirements analysis and allocation.
• Mentors engineers and shapes architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior systems engineer and Responsible Engineer across a major vehicle area.
• Lead requirements analysis, decomposition, and allocation; shape architecture decisions.
• Own the verification & validation approach for your area and lead anomaly investigations.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Job description

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 is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will help define Blue Origin's Human Landing System (HLS) - the lander that will carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon and return them safely to Orion. On the System Definition & Certification team you work across requirements, system safety, verification & validation, and certification - the instruments we use to prove the vehicle is safe to fly crew. You will serve as a senior systems engineer and Responsible Engineer across a major area of the vehicle - owning the requirements, safety, and verification baseline, setting technical direction, and mentoring the engineers around you. We favor lean, tool-driven workflows over moving data by hand, and we would rather build the tool that removes the busywork than staff it.

Special Mentions

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 25 % of the time to support cross-site and partner coordination
• Interviews will include a technical assessment
• Multiple positions available

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Serve as a senior systems engineer and Responsible Engineer owning the requirements, safety, and verification baseline across a major vehicle area or the inter-element seams between areas
• Lead requirements analysis, decomposition, and allocation, and shape the architecture decisions that flow from them
• Own the verification & validation approach for your area and lead anomaly investigations, root-cause analysis, and recovery when the vehicle does not behave as designed
• Set the risk-based standard for how variances and deviations are dispositioned in your area
• Develop lean, tool-driven processes for requirements, safety, and V&V and earn their adoption across the team and design IPTs
• Act as the working-level technical interface for your area across IPT