Technical Program Lead: RF Ground Stations & Terminals

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 197,529 - 276,540; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Stock options

Paid time off

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin, based in Seattle, is advancing spaceflight technologies and building a new era of space-enabled communications. The role focuses on owning program execution for customer terminals across hardware, firmware, RF, and manufacturing workstreams.

The successful candidate will drive schedules, risk management, and executive reporting while coordinating across hardware, software, RF, and manufacturing teams to ensure on‑time delivery and quality. Seattle‑area candidates preferred.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical program management or related leadership experience in complex hardware, embedded systems, telecom, aerospace, or network infrastructure programs.
• Strong understanding of hardware development, embedded software, RF systems, manufacturing, and system integration.
• Experience managing programs with contract manufacturers, external suppliers, and technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Own program execution for customer terminal development efforts across multiple engineering teams.
• Build integrated schedules, milestone plans, dependency maps, and risk registers for hardware, firmware, RF, test, compliance, and manufacturing workstreams.
• Drive weekly program reviews, action tracking, and executive reporting with clear status, blockers, decisions, and next steps.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams across hardware, embedded software, RF systems, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality.
• Establish program mechanisms for issue escalation, change control, requirement tracking, and decision logging.
• Partner with engineering leads to identify technical risks early and drive mitigation plans to closure.
• Support development of manufacturing readiness, validation plans, and factory ramp activities for customer terminals and RF ground stations.
• Work with contract manufacturers and external vendors to manage build schedules, deliverables, and quality outcomes.
• Ensure test, deployment, and field‑readiness plans are defined for both terminal and ground station systems.
• Track cost, schedule, performance, and yield metrics; highlight deviations and drive corrective action.
• Communicate clearly and frequently with leadership, ensuring alignment on priorities and tradeoffs.
• Help create repeatable program processes that improve velocity, accountability, and predictability across teams.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical or software engineering

Job description

Blue Origin, based in Seattle, is advancing spaceflight technologies and building a new era of space-enabled communications. The role focuses on owning program execution for customer terminals across hardware, firmware, RF, and manufacturing workstreams.

The successful candidate will drive schedules, risk management, and executive reporting while coordinating across hardware, software, RF, and manufacturing teams to ensure on‑time delivery and quality. Seattle‑area candidates preferred.