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Reliability Engineer (II-III)
Join Blue Origin Operations as a Reliability Engineer supporting Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance across all company facilities.
Your role
You will work as part of a team of engineers, analysts, and specialists to decompose design reliability requirements and provide technical assessments to define, analyze, and improve the reliability of space systems. Using data to determine the factors that drive reliability, you will support initiatives to improve design, test, and flight reliability. You will collaborate with design engineers, operations engineers, senior technical leaders, maintenance professionals, and customers across Blue Origin programs to drive design improvements, maintenance strategies, and process improvements.
Key responsibilities
- Identification and decomposition of reliability requirements
- Performing reliability predictions on mechanical and electrical components
- Performing system-level reliability assessments
- Performing reliability/life test design and reliability growth modelling
Minimum qualifications
- B.S. degree or higher in Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial Engineering or other major requiring engineering or mathematical core courses
- 5+ years working in a reliability role in a design, operational or manufacturing environment
- Proven track record of working successfully in multiple technical fields such as mechanical, fluid, and electrical systems
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, fluid schematics, and electrical circuit diagrams
- Knowledge of quality and configuration management systems
- Critical thinking, causal analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Strong written, personal, and computer skills
- 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
- Experience with DOORS, CREO, Windchill, and/or JIRA
- Demonstrated experience in human spaceflight systems
- Proven experience with reliability/life test design (failure modes discovery, life demonstration, and screening), Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and probabilistic risk analysis
- Experience with failure rate prediction for electrical components and circuit card assemblies (e.g., MIL-HDBK-217F, 217Plus, Physics of Failure or similar)
- Experience using AI/Automation and scripting languages such as VBA and Python to automate processes and analyses
What we offer
- Base pay range (WA): $121,023.00 - $169,432.20 (other site ranges may differ)
- Relocation provided
- Travel expected up to 20% of the time
- 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 (20+ hours/week)
- Paid time off: up to four weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Eligibility for performance bonuses based on role type and job level
Background check and clearance
Blue's Standard Background Check is required for all positions. Additional background checks (DBIDS, commercial driver qualifications, or Merchant Mariner Credential) may be required depending on specific role requirements.