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Fluids Systems Test and Operations Engineer III – New Glenn Upper Stage

Fluids Systems Test and Operations Engineer III – New Glenn Upper Stage

CompanyBlue Origin
LocationSeattle, WA, USA, Merritt Island, FL, USA, Denver, CO, USA
Salary$107707 – $164497
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

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