Blue Origin

Systems Engineer - Risk and Safety

Blue Origin$90K — $127K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. degree in aerospace, electrical, mechanical engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years engineering experience in the aerospace industry.
  • Strong understanding of system safety, risk, and mission assurance.
  • Experience interpreting regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Skilled in problem identification and root cause analysis.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively on rapid development programs.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and review system risks while proposing technical solutions.
  • Ensure compliance of products and requirements with safety processes and standards.
  • Implement continuous improvement in risk and safety processes.
  • Train engineers in identifying and analyzing system risks.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to verify compliance with safety requirements.
  • Generate metrics and reports on program status and health.
  • Promote and maintain a healthy system safety culture.

Benefits

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

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

We are a hardworking 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 the New Glenn SEIT system safety, reliability and risk team, you will work to develop processes and products for the design and evaluation of the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle system and facilities. You must have a passion for mission assurance, a commitment to the fundamentals of system safety, and a strong capacity to work collaboratively on complex and interesting new problems. You will lead risk management projects to coordinate design teams, propose risk mitigation efforts, and support integrated solutions. You will utilize system engineering practices across disciplines predicated to a high degree on your technical skills, ensure consistent system engineering implementations across the New Glenn elements and subsystems, and serve in a system integration capacity working with multi-discipline teams to arrive at technical system solutions. Additionally, this role requires understanding and supporting requirements analysis and traceability, functional analysis, systems analysis, safety analysis, technical performance monitoring, developing strategies and approaches for specialty engineering (operability, reliability, maintainability, supportability) and system product life cycle processes. You will support the alignment and consistent implementation of New Glenn system engineering practices for system to lower-level program tiers as well as across program systems. You will also help develop health metrics to support insight into program health and tracking to major milestones.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Evaluate and perform reviews of system risks suggesting technical solutions to complex problems.
  • Evaluate products and requirements for compliance with our system safety processes and products against internal and external standards including Range Safety, NASA, FAA, MIL-STD-882, or ARP-4761.
  • Implement and maintain risk and safety processes and identify continuous improvement opportunities
  • Train and coach engineers on identifying and analyzing system risks
  • Work with systems engineering and subsystem cognizant engineers to identify and verify compliance with system safety requirements.
  • Assist in generating metrics and report on program system status
  • Participate in actively maintaining a healthy system safety culture

Minimum Qualifications
  • Minimum of a B.S. degree in aerospace/electrical/mechanical engineering or related field
  • 5+ years engineering experience in the aerospace industry
  • Strong system safety, Risk, and mission assurance fundamentals
  • Experience interpreting and assessing compliance to regulatory requirements and guidance.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to identify problems, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team on rapid development programs
  • 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.

Preferred Qualifications
  • 3+ years risk management experience
  • Familiarity with system safety or reliability engineering experience performing FHAs, PSSAs, FMEA/FMECAs, FTAs, & CCAs
  • Experience performing compliance assessments and tailoring of FAA and Range Safety launch system requirements
  • Experience with a variety of complex aerospace or launch vehicle systems
  • Process ownership and maintenance experience


Base Pay Range for:
CO applicants is $90,934.00 - $127,307.25WA applicants is $99,201.00 - $138,880.35

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.


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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2000

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