Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we're developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin's mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.

The Enterprise Data Management & Analytics team supervises the platform and data management capabilities that enable analytics, data engineering and data science across the company. We are constantly innovating in the ways we are automating and accelerating the creation of products using innovative software and hardware technologies. We use the latest AWS technologies, big data approaches, and LLM to build distributed, highly available systems to achieve our goals.

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer II - AI/ML to join our Metadata team. This role requires an individual with a deep understanding of software development, machine learning and a broad range of technical capabilities. The ideal candidate will be hands-on and ready to dive in.

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!

What You Will Be Doing:

• Design and implement scalable, low-latency AI services powering metadata generation and feature extraction
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering peers to understand and translate business requirements into flexible design solutions
• Ensure that AI/ML systems comply with security standards and best practices, addressing data privacy and protection concerns
• Develop and deploy Agentic AI solutions, including autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered workflows, that will generate business insights across Finance, Supply Chain, and other enterprise domains
• Own features end-to-end: from project estimation and architecture review through coding, deployment, and post-launch measurement
• Build resilient systems with strong observability, bringing to bear automated testing, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Lead on-call rotations; drive root-cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational excellence

Required Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience with focus on building RESTful APIs and AI/ML applications, in cloud environments, and containerized workloads (we use AWS)
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python (Preferred) or Java
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, and problem-solving

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, fine-tuning, and/or AI agent orchestration frameworks

Compensation Range for:
WA applicants is $134,961.00 - $188,945.40

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits

• Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.