Fluids Systems Test and Operations Engineer III – New Glenn Upper Stage
| Company | Blue Origin |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, Merritt Island, FL, USA, Denver, CO, USA |
| Salary | $107707 – $164497 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace engineering or other technical field
- 5+ years of current technical hands-on experience in: Fluids, Thermal, Propulsion, Cryogenics, Pneumatics
- Technical hands-on experience in at least one of these areas: Analysis, Design, Testing, launch operations
- Hands-on experience in developing, authoring, and implementing integrated tests or operating launch vehicles
- A passion for understanding the bigger picture
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in teams as well as lead through influence
- Experience in system engineering on launch vehicles, spacecraft, or in other highly regulated industries
- Experience writing or consuming requirements
- Ability to operate, make decisions, lead, and make forward progress in ambiguous environments
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Responsibilities
- Support Vehicle and Ground System Project Leads by carrying out systems engineering activities in accordance with Blue Origin standards and practices
- Build detailed CONOPS for pre-launch and flight operations
- Requirements authoring, decomposition, analysis, traceability, and verification
- Negotiate interfaces and coordinate between internal and external stakeholders
- Develop and implement verification plans and strategies to complete verification of requirements
- Define operational constraints for the end-to-end safe handling and successful operation of the subsystem
- Lead gated reviews and support New Glenn program and element level gated reviews.
- Author and maintain system safety documentation such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA); Architecture Safety Assessments (ASA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), and Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECAs)
- Collaborate with integrated test, launch operations, and autonomous flight operations customer teams to incorporate operational constraints into downstream procedures and flight plans
- Provide real-time engineering anomaly resolution during integrated test and launch operations
Preferred Qualifications
- Launch vehicle controller (front room or engineering back room) experience
- Experience with system safety
- System integration experience, preferably with aerospace hardware
- Knowledge of current systems engineering processes and methodologies
- Experience with DOORS Next Generation or equivalent requirements management software
- Experience in reliability, maintainability and operability analysis and execution
- Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA