Blue Origin

System Safety Engineer III

Blue Origin$121K — $169K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years of System Safety or Systems Engineering experience with requirements definition and validation.
  • In-depth experience with safety analyses on critical systems (FTA, PHA, FHA, FMECA).
  • Ability to lead and coordinate safety analysis across diverse engineering teams.
  • Strong fundamentals in safety and mission assurance, with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Perform and lead engineering activities including safety analyses and risk assessments.
  • Develop and coordinate system safety analysis plans and review safety products.
  • Ensure traceability between system functions and safety artifacts.
  • Support verification and validation of safety and reliability requirements.
  • Mentor other engineers and provide technical guidance across the program.
  • Collaborate to develop best practices for safety processes across programs.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability.
  • 401(k) with company match up to 5%.
  • Stock options available for regular employees working at least 20 hours/week.
  • Up to four weeks of paid time off annually, plus 14 company-paid holidays.
Full Job Description
Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

This role is part of the Safety, Quality and Mission Assurance organization. This team is focused on defining, monitoring and assessing processes that guide Blue Origin's design, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, reliability, environmental health, and safety, product integrity, and certification.

As part of a hardworking team of engineers, you will work as a System Safety Engineer on space vehicles and in-space systems. You will work with systems engineering teams to define and verify compliance with safety and reliability requirements. You will help engineers identify areas of opportunity for design improvements, minimize risk to people and property, and increase the probability of mission success. You will be responsible for leading, performing and coordinating safety analyses to identify hazards, causes, controls, mitigations, and risk characterization. You will work directly with responsible engineers, program management, and customers to return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of Earth.

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 a must!

Special Mentions:
  • Relocation provided
  • Travel expected up to 20% of the time


Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Perform and lead engineering activities including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Preliminary Hazard Assessment (PHA), Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Hazard Reports, Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), reliability analysis, and developing mitigation plans
  • Develop plans and coordinate completion of system and subsystem safety analysis, providing review, guidance, and expertise of safety analysis products
  • Ensure traceability between system and subsystem functions, requirements, and safety artifacts
  • Support verification and validation of safety and reliability requirements
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers across the program and company
  • Collaborate across systems to develop best practices and find opportunities for common processes across programs


Minimum Qualifications:
  • B.S. degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of System Safety or Systems Engineering experience performing activities such as requirements definition, requirements traceability, functional decomposition, integration, verification, and validation
  • In-depth experience with performing safety analyses on safety critical systems including: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Preliminary Hazard Assessment (PHA), Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Hazard Reports, Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), reliability analysis, and mitigation plans
  • Ability to lead and coordinate safety analysis products across stakeholders and experts from varying engineering fields to produce safety and reliability products
  • Strong safety and mission assurance fundamentals
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate technical information effectively


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience performing system safety and/or reliability analyses on satellites or human-rated in-space systems
  • Experience performing compliance assessment of system safety processes and products against external standards including Range Safety, NASA, FAA, MIL-STD-882, or ARP-4761
  • Experience with certification of human-rated space systems
  • Process ownership and maintenance experience
  • Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.


Base Pay Range for:
WA applicants is $121,023.00 - $169,432.20

Other site ranges may differ

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.


About Blue Origin

Blue Origin is an aerospace company that develops rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers. The company's products include the New Shepard suborbital vehicle and the New Glenn orbital rocket. Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos and is headquartered in Kent, Washington.
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3,000 employees
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Founded
2000

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