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Payload Integration Engineer II (Top Secret Clearance Required) Verified today

Blue Origin · Reston, VA · Production · first seen 2026-10-16
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About This Role

You will work on the Payload Accommodation subsystem for Blue Ring, our hybrid solar-electric and chemical-propelled spacecraft for national security missions. As a Payload Integration Engineer II, you are the customer-facing point of contact for one or more payloads from contract execution through integration and launch.

This role demands systems engineering expertise, customer management skills, and leadership. You will work across requirements analysis, functional and systems analysis, safety analysis, technical performance monitoring, and product lifecycle processes in a hardware-rich prototyping environment with rapid design-build iteration cycles.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as customer-facing technical advocate for payloads through full payload lifecycle
  • Support development, allocation, and verification of requirements
  • Develop systems engineering processes and tools, ensure consistent implementation, and serve in a system integration capacity
  • Work with multi-discipline teams to arrive at technical system solutions

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, or Physics
  • 2+ years of proven experience in systems engineering principles and execution
  • Experience in one or more of: payload accommodation, spacecraft design/development/integration/testing, or launch vehicles
  • Experience with project or program management
  • Comfort in highly dynamic and fast-paced environments
  • Strategic system thinking, excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Proactive collaborator who earns trust and maintains positive professional relationships
  • Knowledge of current systems engineering and integration tools and methodologies
  • Active Top Secret (TS) / Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance with Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with polygraph

Preferred Qualifications

  • M.S. degree in a relevant technical field
  • 5+ years of experience
  • Expertise in payload accommodation, system development/integration, analysis, design, integrated testing, or launch vehicles
  • Focused subject area in fluids, thermal, propulsion, avionics, electrical hardware/software, telemetry/communications, structures, ground operations, or flight/ground autonomy
  • Experience with reliability, maintainability, operability analysis and execution
  • System safety and testing experience
  • Verification of requirements using DOORS Next Generation, system lifecycle configuration management tools, and functional analysis toolsets
  • Knowledge of system design and analysis relations to element design at flight and ground levels, and component specification development
  • Familiarity with full product lifecycle including ground equipment, operations, manufacturing, and ISC considerations

Location and Travel

  • Reston, VA
  • Relocation provided
  • Travel expected up to 15% of the time

Compensation

Base Pay Range for VA applicants: $99,201.00 to $138,880.35

Employment Requirements

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.

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 regular employees working at least 20 hours per week
  • Up to four weeks paid time off per year based on scheduled hours, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays
  • Performance-based bonuses (eligibility and amounts not guaranteed)