BLUE ORIGIN

Mechanical Engineer

• Lead design, development, and integration of PLLs and clock distribution in advanced CMOS FinFET and SiGe technologies
• Optimize performance and analyze design trade-offs
• Develop high-performance PLL circuits using Spectre and AMS flows
• Collaborate with RF and SoC system architects to define PLL and sub-block requirements
• Integrate PLLs into RF payloads and terminals
• Oversee layout, top-level integration, floorplanning, and verification through tape-out
• Work with validation and product engineers to develop test plans, facilitate bring-up, optimize performance, and support reliable, high-yield production
• Investigate and implement analog building blocks to improve circuit performance
• Mentor junior engineers on analog design best practices
• Travel up to 10% of the time

Principal PLL IC Design Engineer, TeraWave

Systems Engineer

• Work at significant technical depth on complex subsystems with minimal oversight as part of the Fluids and Propulsion Integrated Product Team
• Lead subsystem trade studies from early concept through approval and implementation
• Lead trade studies, component design and integration, first-order analysis, and test support
• Ensure timely updates and communication of subsystem-level architecture diagrams and schematics
• Apply systems engineering fundamentals across concept development, requirements, design, analysis, validation, integration, safety, configuration management, verification, and test
• Integrate fluids and propulsion subsystems with vehicle-level design, analysis, software, and operations
• Support development and execution of component and subsystem tests
• Contribute to Blue Origin’s Lunar Permanence business unit developing Blue Moon lunar landers and sustainable Earth-to-Moon transport infrastructure

Fluids Systems Engineer III – Lunar Permanence

Solutions Engineer

• Bring up custom SoCs and ASICs through first-silicon power-on, initialization, configuration, functional validation, and debugging
• Develop low-level C/C++ software, firmware, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure
• Prepare bring-up software, test sequences, register-access utilities, diagnostics, and validation capabilities using simulation, emulation, FPGA prototypes, or other pre-silicon platforms
• Integrate and debug low-level software and firmware with silicon hardware, including clocks, resets, memory interfaces, peripherals, data paths, and high-speed interfaces
• Develop and execute functional, performance, stress, and corner-condition tests
• Characterize silicon across voltage, temperature, frequency, operating modes, and process variation
• Investigate and root-cause failures spanning silicon hardware, RTL, firmware/software, boards, clocks, power, interfaces, and system behavior
• Develop automated infrastructure for DUT configuration, lab instrumentation, data collection, regression testing, and analysis
• Bring up and debug interfaces including JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, DDR/LPDDR, and custom chip-to-chip interfaces
• Define requirements for evaluation boards, fixtures, sockets, instrumentation, and debug capabilities; collaborate with board-design teams
• Collaborate with ASIC architecture/design, verification, firmware/software, RF/DSP, board, system, manufacturing, and test teams
• Support silicon maturation from engineering samples through characterization, validation, and production readiness, including verification of fixes across silicon revisions
• Travel up to 20% of the time

Senior Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Define, architect, design, test, and validate spacecraft compute software
• Architect and build an orchestration platform for containerized workloads across distributed orbital compute nodes
• Design and implement scheduling algorithms optimizing power, thermal constraints, workload priority, and data locality
• Develop the control plane, APIs, and software enabling multi-tenancy, resource allocation, and job submission
• Own software-defined networking and storage strategies
• Design highly available systems that handle failures, intermittent connectivity, and complex spacecraft orchestration
• Lead technical strategy for the orchestration stack from container runtime and OS-level primitives through service layers
• Lead validation and testing campaigns on aggressive deployment timelines
• Collaborate with hardware and application teams to co-design a performant, operable platform meeting customer needs

Principal Software Engineer, Compute Architect

Engineer

• Lead multi-layer PCBA design for switch line cards, including stackup definition, impedance-controlled routing, thermal management, and manufacturability-driven layout
• Own SMT fabrication process development, including panelization, solder paste stencil design, reflow profiles, and component placement optimization
• Manage CCA BOM procurement, vendor coordination, SMT line qualification, and assembly oversight
• Drive first-article inspection, process validation, and manufacturing readiness reviews to support production ramp
• Drive DFX principles including DFM, DFT, DFA, DFR, and DFS across the PCBA and SMT fabrication lifecycle
• Optimize PCB stackups, component footprints, land patterns, and SMT assembly processes for yield and cost
• Architect built-in test structures, boundary scan (JTAG), test points, ICT fixtures, and automated test coverage
• Simplify component placement, connector selection, and mechanical integration to reduce assembly time, rework, and errors
• Apply derating, worst-case circuit analysis, FMEA, solder joint reliability analysis, and reliability prediction
• Coordinate component standardization, second-sourcing strategies, and obsolescence mitigation
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to define acceptance criteria, optimize yield, and support sustained production ramp for TeraWave operations

Senior Manufacturing PCBA Design, SMT Fab DFX Engineer

General

• Oversee site appearance, maintenance, safety standards, security protocols, and operational efficiency across extended sites
• Coordinate with facilities management on infrastructure needs and improvements
• Communicate site restrictions, closures, and reopening status related to operations, product testing, or weather incidents
• Determine site space utilization, including office planning, production, material movement, and storage requirements
• Manage facility tours and dignitary visits
• Develop, document, and implement consistent site operating standards and playbooks with peer site leaders and enterprise functions
• Surface local needs to enterprise leadership and support broader site strategy
• Support onboarding and setup of new site locations
• Participate in safety meetings, operational reviews, and internal and external audits
• Drive safety culture and site-wide employee engagement initiatives
• Maintain communication channels to inform and engage employees across sites
• Champion company values and align corporate vision with local site execution
• Represent Blue Origin with local government officials, community organizations, at local events, industry forums, and community engagements
• Collaborate on site-specific public relations matters
• Coordinate monthly site operational results for product line and business leaders
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across Facilities, EHS, Production, Business Leaders, Security, and engagement teams
• Escalate unresolved site-level issues to enterprise leadership

Site Leader, Extended Sites

• Ensure spacecraft satisfy critical partner needs
• Craft vehicle and ground data architectures for mission capabilities
• Connect flight software data to systems functions, ground operations, and test engineering
• Shape program requirements, operational descriptions, and system designs to meet customer needs
• Interpret functional description documents and command/telemetry definitions to create data and data-handling architecture for Blue Ring satellites
• Guide data format, streams, and storage development and testing
• Work with spacecraft development engineers, flight software developers, spaceflight operations, and test engineering to implement data architecture use cases
• Detail data architecture and develop standards and processes
• Ensure sufficiency in data products and align data interfaces and interactions across interconnected systems
• Lead Command and Telemetry Database and Parameter Database development
• Define file management and onboard data storage
• Manage uplink data, onboard command sequences, data transfer, telemetry downlink, and data prioritization within flight software and memory-management devices
• Define data placement strategies between CTDB and Parameter data
• Develop scalable data architecture roadmaps for telemetry and command data across vehicle fleets
• Anticipate future payload and mission requirements
• Shape payload, spacecraft, and program data-management and data-handling processes and criteria
• Travel expected up to 10% of the time

Spacecraft Data Systems Engineer

• Define, capture, and manage mission-specific system technical baselines, configurations, and capability roadmap implementation
• Establish technical requirements and architecture baselines for Blue Ring spacecraft capabilities, missions, and customer needs
• Manage Blue Ring architectural product-line variants, including spacecraft bus, ground-system, and payload requirements and interfaces
• Collaborate with Mission Systems Engineering, Integration & Test and supporting organizations on systems-engineering governance processes
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on system requirements, design parameters, technical budgets, ICDs, program plans, and technical performance measures
• Lead stakeholder-needs analyses to align system configurations and technical capabilities with customer missions
• Track system-configuration evolution and identify synergies between mission types and customer requirements
• Develop technology-onramp and capability-evolution plans
• Lead Systems Engineering Change Management and optimize related processes
• Define standardized approaches for maintaining technical baselines across concurrent missions, development efforts, and customers
• Lead trade studies evaluating evolving technologies and mission requirements
• Use Jama, Windchill, and Cameo
• Support and present at leadership meetings and gated design, mission, and readiness reviews

Mission Systems Engineer, Capabilities Roadmap Implementation

DevOps Engineer

• Serve as the hardware reliability technical focal point across spacecraft bus electronics, RF and optical payload hardware, avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, GNC hardware, thermal-control hardware, structures and mechanisms, harnesses, connectors, and EEE parts
• Develop, maintain, and execute the TeraWave hardware reliability and maintainability approach across satellites, spacecraft bus systems, and RF and optical payload hardware
• Derive and allocate quantitative reliability, availability, and mission-life requirements to spacecraft and payload hardware, LRUs, CCAs, EEE parts, mechanisms, harnesses, and critical hardware interfaces
• Build and maintain reliability block diagrams, functional failure analyses, FMEAs/FMECAs, fault trees, critical-item lists, and single-point-failure assessments
• Partner with system and hardware subsystem architects to improve design robustness through derating, redundancy, cross-strapping, isolation, protective circuitry, design margins, parts selection, and graceful degradation
• Perform reliability predictions and sensitivity studies using component, test, supplier, and field/heritage data
• Quantify reliability and availability impacts of satellite and payload hardware trades
• Integrate radiation-induced failures, EEE part degradation, thermal and mechanical cycling, optical and RF degradation, mechanism wear, connector and harness failure modes, latent defects, and manufacturing variation into analyses
• Define hardware reliability demonstration, growth, and verification plans; support qualification, acceptance, highly accelerated, environmental, life, and integrated hardware testing
• Review requirements, schematics, drawings, interface-control documents, test plans, nonconformances, waivers, and supplier data for reliability impacts
• Establish reliability metrics and evidence packages for program reviews, architecture closure, PBRs, design reviews, and flight-readiness decisions
• Communicate technical and residual risk in decision-ready terms while balancing mission success, constellation availability, cost, schedule, producibility, and fleet operations
• Support TeraWave, Blue Origin’s satellite communications network delivering high-speed connectivity through LEO/MEO satellite constellations

Reliability Engineer, Satellite & Payloads

• Develop, maintain, and execute the TeraWave EEE Parts Management Plan and approved-parts strategy
• Review and approve EEE parts for satellite and payload applications across development, qualification, and flight configurations
• Establish requirements for selection, qualification, screening, derating, upscreening, traceability, storage, handling, date-code, lot-control, and change notification
• Evaluate commercial, industrial, automotive, military, and space-grade parts using manufacturer data, process maturity, qualification pedigree, construction analysis, failure history, radiation evidence, and application conditions
• Maintain a configuration-controlled approved-parts list and part-approval workflow linked to BOMs, drawing releases, deviations/waivers, risk records, and supplier changes
• Lead part-application reviews covering electrical, thermal, mechanical, packaging, mounting, solderability, and life considerations
• Coordinate with Radiation Engineering on TID, DDD, SEE, lot-specific evidence, and radiation testing
• Coordinate with Reliability Engineering on failure rates, failure mechanisms, FMEA criticality, life models, and reliability predictions
• Coordinate with M&P, PCB/CCA, harness, and manufacturing teams on materials, tin whisker risk, red plague, lead-free controls, counterfeit avoidance, moisture sensitivity, cleanliness, and workmanship
• Define and oversee physical analysis, construction analysis, qualification, screening, lot acceptance, burn-in, life, and failure-analysis activities
• Assess obsolescence, allocation, sole-source, counterfeit, end-of-life, and product-change-notification risks and develop mitigation strategies with Supply Chain
• Drive part standardization and reuse across LRUs and payloads
• Support supplier audits, source selection, technical interchange meetings, failure investigations, MRB, nonconformance dispositions, and corrective actions
• Create dashboards and metrics for BOM approval status, radiation evidence, lifecycle health, exceptions, screening/test status, and supply risk using PLM and enterprise data sources
• Serve as program technical authority for EEE part selection and application across the spacecraft bus and RF and optical payloads

EEE Parts Engineer – Satellite, Payloads

Electrical Engineer

• Own the Electrical Systems and EPS requirements baseline, architecture products, interface definition, technical-budget integration, verification strategy, and closure evidence
• Derive, allocate, and manage verifiable electrical-system requirements and maintain traceability across diagrams, equipment lists, operating modes, interfaces, analyses, schematics, and verification events
• Interface with electrical power-budget owners for nominal, peak, transient, contingency, safe-mode, beginning-of-life, and end-of-life cases
• Reconcile assumptions among DRM, PEL/MEL, thermal loads, propulsion, payload duty cycles, and radiation degradation
• Lead electrical architecture trades involving bus voltage, battery topology, solar-array sizing, PCDU functions, load switching, redundancy, cross-strapping, and umbilicals
• Lead requirements, interface, verification, and test-readiness reviews
• Coordinate anomaly resolution with responsible hardware and test teams
• Create integrated verification plans and cross-reference matrices
• Support flatsat, hardware-in-the-loop, subsystem, spacecraft, environmental, and mission-scenario testing and drive discrepancies to closure
• Manage electrical-system risks, decisions, assumptions, technical performance measures, configuration changes, and change-impact assessments across requirements, models, diagrams, ICDs, equipment lists, hardware definition, and test procedures
• Partner with electrical design leads and connect spacecraft bus, payload, propulsion, flight software, mission operations, and specialty engineering teams

Senior Electrical Engineer – Electrical Systems, EPS

• Develop, maintain, and execute the TeraWave Materials and Processes Plan and approved materials/processes lists
• Provide M&P technical authority for spacecraft structures, mechanisms, thermal hardware, RF and optical payload hardware, solar arrays, propulsion hardware, avionics enclosures, electronics, batteries, connectors, harnesses, coatings, adhesives, lubricants, and surface finishes
• Review drawings, material and process specifications, source-control documents, supplier plans, and manufacturing instructions
• Select and qualify materials and processes for vacuum, radiation, atomic oxygen, thermal cycling, humidity/storage, contamination, corrosion, charging, high-voltage, and launch environments
• Establish and manage prohibited/restricted materials controls
• Define requirements for soldering, crimping, splicing, bonding, welding, brazing, plating, cleaning, coating, torque, cure, bakeout, lubrication, handling, and repair/rework
• Partner with harness engineering, EEE Parts, PCB/CCA, and Radiation Engineering teams
• Plan and oversee coupon, material, process, and workmanship qualification; define acceptance criteria and verification methods; review test data and qualification reports
• Support supplier assessment, special-process approval, process capability, first-article reviews, audits, nonconformances, MRB, failure analysis, and corrective action
• Drive design-for-manufacture and design-for-automation improvements for high-rate production
• Maintain configuration control and traceability of materials, processes, deviations, shelf-life extensions, substitutions, and supplier changes
• Investigate contamination, corrosion, delamination, cracking, insulation damage, solder/interconnect failures, plating defects, and other anomalies

Materials & Processes Engineer – Satellite & Payloads

• Develop, maintain, and execute the TeraWave radiation hardness assurance plan for LEO and MEO spacecraft, payloads, avionics, EPS, propulsion electronics, sensors, optical devices, and solar-array technologies
• Define and control external and internal radiation environments over mission lifetimes, including trapped particles, solar particle events, galactic cosmic rays, TID, DDD/TNID, and SEE
• Translate mission orbit, duration, confidence level, shielding, duty cycle, and availability needs into radiation requirements for systems, subsystems, units, circuits, and EEE parts
• Establish and maintain radiation design-margin policy with risk- and criticality-based tiers and documented rationale
• Perform or direct shielding, dose-depth, sectoring/ray-trace, and part-location analyses
• Evaluate EEE parts and optoelectronics for SEE, TID, enhanced low-dose-rate sensitivity, DDD, and application-specific failure thresholds
• Calculate mission SEE rates and translate device events into circuit, box, subsystem, and system effects
• Partner with EEE Parts Engineering to screen BOMs, assess heritage and vendor data, disposition radiation risk, and define testing or procurement controls
• Partner with electrical, RF, optical, and avionics designers on radiation mitigation
• Support solar-array degradation predictions and end-of-life power assurance with Solar and EPS teams
• Maintain the radiation risk register, evidence status, waivers/deviations, open tests, and residual risk
• Support design reviews and flight-readiness decisions
• Monitor emerging radiation-effects data and provide application-specific guidance for new technologies and electronic devices

Radiation Engineer – Spacecraft & Payloads

• Define and document integrated onboard autonomy behavior across subsystem interfaces, including fault responses, mode transitions, command sequences, telemetry expectations, and operational constraints
• Develop onboard fault detection, isolation, and response logic across multiple satellite subsystems
• Develop and integrate flight software for fault management and system-level autonomy applications and parameters
• Develop onboard mission sequencing and mode management logic for key mission phases and nominal/contingency mode transitions
• Collaborate across Flight Software, Avionics, GN&C, Electrical Power, C&DH, Propulsion, RF/Communications, and Thermal subsystems
• Develop and execute verification and validation scripts, including fault injection, scenario-based testing, telemetry validation, and regression testing
• Partner with Systems Engineering on FMECA, CONOPS, and System Hazards Analyses
• Develop and maintain table-driven flight software parameters supporting FDIR, sequencing, and mode management
• Partner with mission operations and fleet management teams to support scalable constellation operations

Satellite Software and Autonomy Engineer III

Program Manager

• Lead large, cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution
• Drive organizational readiness, stakeholder alignment, adoption, and operational sustainability
• Provide ownership and leadership in high-priority areas with limited process maturity or organizational structure
• Quickly learn complex business processes, tools, and operational challenges
• Serve as the bridge between technical development teams and operations groups
• Enable stakeholders to understand product features, implementation steps, business impacts, and value propositions
• Lead onboarding and change management for new tools across multiple operations teams
• Communicate feature launches, updates, and roadmaps through presentations, demos, training materials, and documentation
• Gather and relay operational feedback to product and engineering teams
• Identify and resolve barriers to adoption and execution
• Develop scalable rollout plans covering pilots, success metrics, risks, timelines, and post-launch support
• Facilitate syncs, workshops, and working sessions across operations, engineering, product, and leadership
• Track adoption, program performance, risks, pain points, and business impact
• Deliver data-driven updates and recommendations to senior leadership
• Improve deployment, onboarding, and operational workflows and user experience