Senior System Design Integrator at Blue Origin in Kent, WA

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will facilitate configuration development and integration of New Glenn Stage 2. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of the design throughout the product lifecycle. Your passion for space means you’re committed to the necessary quality and attention to detail required to support human space flight. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

In this role you will integrate between sub-systems to define the best design solutions for New Glenn Stage 2. You will manage the integrated design solution across the vehicle structural, mechanical, fluids and electrical subsystems. You will also support development of system requirements, requirement flow down, and verification planning. You will lead cross-functional trades and impact studies. You will be responsible for coordinating and communicating designs changes between affected sub-systems. You will assist in configuration management and in Engineering Change Requests (ECR’s). You will create and manage interface definitions between subsystems with appropriate model interface definition and interface control documents (ICDs).

To be successful in this role, you will need to facilitate and resolve integration and development issues between engineering teams. You must be able to ensure that the configuration supports major design reviews and integration milestones. You will maintain and report on development activity, schedule, budget, and technical issues. You will need to coordinate with manufacturing and tooling team to assess Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) of an integrated second stage. You will provide technical assistance to integration and testing activities. You will generate high-level assembly level drawings and oversee the design of hardware. You will create stage level assembly tolerance stackups and tolerance allocations. And you will verify that interfaces meet applicable Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing allocations and interface control models. You must ensure the team adheres to configuration management best practices as well as Blue Origin configuration management standards. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in engineering and at least 7 years of experience in the development and packaging of large structural support equipment used in oil/gas, aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures
• Demonstrated configuration control experience on recently developed large support equipment used in oil/gas, aircraft, or launch vehicles from early trade studies through final design, and into manufacturing and test
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills and experience working in a highly integrated cross-functional team environment
• Good judgment and flexibility, and oriented on achieving results
• Strong design and integration skills using 3-D CAD software and visualization tools
• Demonstrated knowledge of scheduling and planning principles and tools
• 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

Desired:

• B.S. degree in engineering and at least 10 years of experience or M.S. degree in engineering and at least 8 year of experience
• Strong GD&T skills and experience with large tolerance stack-up analysis
• Experience using PTC Creo and Windchill
• Participated in a recognized configuration management training (CMII)
• Knowledge of aerospace vehicle fabrication and assembly techniques and related quality control concepts
• Ability to interpret and apply high-level system requirements to practical design solutions