Engineer - Fluid Systems Sr Verified today
About the role
You will design, analyze, test, and critically review the safety-critical fluid and mechanical hardware that flies on the New Glenn second stage. This role is part of the New Glenn business unit, which builds Blue Origin's heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond.
Our Second Stage Fluid Systems team owns the complex mechanical and fluid hardware that makes flight possible: pumps, valves, combustors, pressure vessels, tubing, and secondary structure. You will provide technical leadership, expertise, and mentorship across a cross-disciplinary team.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on a cross-disciplinary team in a fast-paced design environment
- Own hardware from concept through detailed design, development, qualification, assembly, and flight
- Apply first-principles physics and engineering analysis to size, design, and validate hardware
- Lead trade studies and advise the team on technical approaches to complex problems
- Define requirements, interfaces, specifications, and control documents with stakeholders
- Plan and conduct engineering tests, lead data reviews, and correlate results to predictions
- Manage procurements, schedules, and risks to meet hardware delivery commitments
- Support production and quality, including dispositioning material defects
- Review and approve designs and documentation created by other engineers
- Mentor junior engineers and improve team best practices
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. in Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, Physics, or related technical field
- 8+ years of experience designing and developing fluid and/or mechanical systems and components
- Experience taking hardware from design through test and into operation
- Proficiency with 3D CAD and engineering analysis (structural, stress, thermal, or fluid)
- Experience leading small teams and/or subcontractors to accomplish objectives
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills
- Ability to earn trust and maintain positive, professional relationships
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. in a related technical field
- Experience with launch vehicles, upper stages, spacecraft, or propulsion systems
- Experience in oil and gas, power generation, industrial rotating equipment, or other high-consequence fluid system industries
- Cryogenic and high-pressure fluid systems experience
- Creo and ANSYS
- Systems engineering experience: requirements and interface definition, management, and verification
- Experience with the full lifecycle of a propulsion or fluid system
Compensation and Benefits
Base pay range for WA applicants: $145,188.00 to $203,263.20. Other site ranges may differ.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with company match of up to 5%, education support program, stock options for all regular employees, and paid time off up to four weeks per year plus up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Employment Requirements
Applicants for employment at Blue Origin 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.
Background checks required for all positions.