Senior Manager MK2 Vehicle System Engineering and Integration (AV/SW) Verified today
About the role
As Senior Manager of Vehicle System Engineering and Integration for the MK2 Crew Lander, you will manage a team of engineers performing integrated design, analysis, verification, validation, and certification for the lander. You will implement agile and lean System Engineering practices across the vehicle, cultivate systems thinking at all levels, and drive technical design integration to advance systems through delivery and operations. This position directly impacts the history of space exploration and requires dedicated commitment to safe and reliable spaceflight.
This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers and related products.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of systems engineers, fostering career development and raising performance standards through strategic planning, high quality decisions, collaboration, communication, and trust
- Control relevant elements of the technical baseline for the Crew Lander that satisfies requirements while balancing cost, schedule, and risk
- Manage requirement and interface definition, validation, and control
- Manage system safety definition and analysis across vehicle systems
- Manage the definition and execution of verification, validation, and certification for a subset of Crew Lander systems
- Establish tools and best practices for System Engineering and Integration, including training and mentoring to foster systems thinking
- Implement agile project management for your team, establishing iterative and incremental deliverables to support integrated vehicle goals
Minimum qualifications
- Demonstrated experience effectively managing people, including fostering a culture of action, accountability, coaching, and development
- Demonstrated experience leading integrated technical teams to deliver complex systems or subsystems in dynamic environments while balancing technical performance, cost, schedule, and risk
- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in applied System Engineering and Integration, including functional analysis, requirements analysis integration, verification and validation, and risk management
- 5 or more years managing technical teams and/or leading functional groups with responsibility for leading and coaching employees
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of integrity
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Minimum B.S. degree in engineering, computing, or another technical field
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with the full lifecycle of development across one or more space missions
- Experience performing at least one system-level verification and validation campaign for a space system
- Experience with space vehicle mission operations
- Experience with CAD configuration and proficiency with Product Lifecycle Management and CAD tools including Windchill/Creo
- Experience with Model Based Definition
- Experience with AI agents and Large Language Models
- Experience applying Model Based System Engineering approaches and tools
- Experience with human spaceflight systems, safety analysis, and certification
- Experience with non-traditional approaches to System Engineering and Integration
- Experience organizing and leading a system engineering team
- Experience implementing agile project management approaches
- Knowledge of Configuration and Data Management processes and standards including Software CM methods and tools such as Gitlab
- Knowledge of project scheduling including development of IMP/IMS, critical path analysis, and schedule risk analysis
Compensation and benefits
Base pay range for Washington applicants: $183,807 to $257,328.75. 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 up to 5%, and Education Support Program. Stock options available for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week. Paid time off up to four weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays. Bonus eligibility dependent on role type and job level.
Requirements
Applicants 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.
Blue's Standard Background Check is required for all positions.