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Aerospace Systems Engineer III - Blue Ring Space Vehicle Requirements & Verification Architect Verified today

Blue Origin · 2 Locations · Space Systems · first seen 2026-09-12
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About the role

This position is part of Blue National Security, focused on space infrastructure and on-orbit mobility. You will define, capture and manage mission-specific system requirements and verification artifacts within the Blue Ring Systems Engineering, Integration & Test organization. Working closely with systems, software, hardware and integration engineers, you will establish Verification & Validation plans and strategies to ensure successful verification of Blue Ring spacecraft missions and customer needs.

You will work at the spacecraft mission and system level with focus on system verification for Blue Ring architectural variants, including all critical spacecraft bus, ground system and payload requirements and interfaces, in a model-based environment. This role begins with a first-of-its-kind space vehicle in development and grows with the product line through multiple missions.

Key responsibilities

  • Perform as Mission Requirements & Verification Lead for critical Blue Ring customer missions, including requirement decomposition, derivation, and allocation
  • Collaborate with Mission Lead Systems Engineers, Spacecraft Systems Engineering, Flight Software, Payload & Mission Integration, and Ground Systems Engineering teams to define system and mission verification plans
  • Engage with internal and external customers, including government agencies and contractors, to analyze unique customer and mission requirements and verification needs
  • Develop and manage requirements and verification modules with accurate flow-down and traceability
  • Define relationships and traceability between requirements, design parameters, technical budgets, ICDs, program plans, and technical performance measures
  • Establish verification approaches and plans for system requirements and identify Integration and Test activities for successful requirements sell-off
  • Manage acquisition of verification data necessary to show compliance to system requirements
  • Perform compliance and traceability assessments and report key metrics and issues to program leadership
  • Create and own system-level spacecraft verification plans and execution
  • Support launch site system testing, including payload and launch vehicle integration
  • Develop product line verification plans and roll-up deliverables
  • Deliver verification reports that ensure launch and operational readiness
  • Ensure all payload interface requirements are met and spacecraft is ready for countdown
  • Verify end-to-end functionality of system including ground system compatibility

Minimum qualifications

  • B.S. in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical or Software Engineering, or equivalent technical field
  • Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, or similar
  • 5+ years of space system development or test engineering experience
  • 2+ years of spacecraft verification experience
  • Demonstrated experience performing requirements definition, traceability, interface definition, design documentation, integration, verification, and validation
  • Background in creating requirement verification reports and roll-up verification of lower level requirements to system level sell-off
  • Experience across the Systems Engineering lifecycle and the Systems Engineering V
  • Proven problem-solving skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as refugee or granted asylum
  • Ability to obtain US Government Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance

Desired qualifications

  • Spacecraft operations, command & control system experience, including familiarity with spacecraft and ground-system internal and external interfaces or spacecraft communications uplink and downlink technologies
  • Spaceflight and mission operations experience including CONOPs development
  • Product line engineering experience
  • Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering
  • Familiarity with System Modeling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, MagicDraw, or Rhapsody
  • Software or scripting language experience
  • Knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA
  • Familiarity with formal risk and opportunity management processes
  • Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture or a related discipline

Compensation and location

Base pay range for Colorado applicants: $110,938.00 - $155,312.85. Other site ranges may differ.

10-15% travel required. Relocation provided.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
  • Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability
  • 401(k) with company match up to 5%
  • Education Support Program
  • Stock options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours/week
  • Up to four weeks paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
  • Bonuses based on company discretion and role level