Senior Manager, Embedded Software - Engines Verified today

About this role

You'll lead a dedicated engineering team delivering engine avionics software products for Blue Origin's family of rocket engines used in commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight missions. As the single-threaded leader for your scope, you manage project execution, drive cost-effective delivery, oversee risk mitigation, and communicate issues to leadership. Close collaboration with Enterprise functions is essential to meet program objectives.

You'll oversee technical quality, develop technical plans to meet customer requirements and internal standards, and ensure all outputs and documentation meet quality assurance criteria. You'll manage complex interdisciplinary tasks, foster teamwork, and provide clear technical direction.

This role includes full people management: hiring, developing, and coaching talent, and supporting a positive, productive team culture.

Product Delivery

• Manage your project scope by ensuring cost-effective execution while maintaining tight control of deliverables needed to meet program objectives
• Establish common software architecture and manage product roadmaps for each program's software product
• Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks and opportunities, including technical, scope, asset, and safety risks specific to program execution; develop mitigation plans and collaborate with peers and program leaders to drive outcomes to acceptable levels
• Coordinate and partner with Enterprise functions such as Software Quality Assurance, Safety and Mission Assurance, and Enterprise Technology to drive product development and maintenance cost and cycle time
• Track and manage team execution and unit product lifecycle cost
• Create the framework to develop and drive collection of project data and use it to monitor key project metrics
• Partner with other Business Units and centralized Blue software teams on software process, tool commonality, and efficiency

Technical Leadership

• Develop and oversee the technical plan, ensuring alignment with negotiated customer requirements and internal design criteria
• Own the overall lifecycle of all avionics software products from development through qualification, rate production, and cost-optimized commercial flight operations
• Manage interdisciplinary engineering tasks for overall system success
• Ensure the quality of engineering outputs, providing technical direction and guidance to the team
• Support requirement decomposition and allocation, systems engineering, technical design, analysis, and verification/validation, including strong management and alignment of interfaces between customers and project technical efforts

Functional Management

• Oversee the full lifecycle of your employees including talent acquisition, employee development, and performance management as needed
• Foster an environment of continuous growth and learning, ensuring compliance with HR processes and policies

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading and managing teams to deliver complex safety-critical embedded software products
• Minimum B.S. degree in Engineering or technical field, or significant demonstrated experience leading teams designing and developing complex engineered products
• 8+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in avionics and/or embedded software product development and maintenance
• 3+ years of project management and/or management experience
• Basic knowledge across relevant engineering disciplines, including requirements negotiation, design, development, analysis, verification, and vehicle integration
• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively communicate across all organizational levels

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with resource/budget management and reporting
• Experience with Agile, IMP-level scheduling, risk management, configuration management, and requirements management processes
• Demonstrated ability to lead change and drive continuous improvement
• Familiarity with industry-leading software development tools
• Hands-on experience with the development lifecycle of embedded software
• Experience in planning and executing test programs for software systems
• Proven ability to develop and maintain software architecture and product/component roadmaps

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.

Required background check: Blue's Standard Background Check. Additional checks may apply depending on role requirements (DBIDS for military installations, DOT medical certification for certain driving roles, or Merchant Mariner Credential where applicable).

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 (20+ hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: up to 4 weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Eligibility for bonuses based on role type and job level, subject to company discretion