Sr. Systems Engineer — Lunar Human Landing System (HLS) Verified today
About the Role
You will work on Blue Origin's Lunar Permanence business unit as part of the System Definition & Certification team, helping define and prove the Human Landing System (HLS) that will carry astronauts to the lunar surface and return them safely to Orion. You will serve as a senior systems engineer and Responsible Engineer, owning the requirements, safety, and verification baseline across a major vehicle area or inter-element seams between areas.
Your Responsibilities
- Serve as Responsible Engineer owning requirements, safety, and verification baseline across a major vehicle area or inter-element seams
- Lead requirements analysis, decomposition, and allocation; shape architecture decisions that flow from them
- Own the verification and validation approach for your area; lead anomaly investigations, root-cause analysis, and recovery
- Set risk-based standards for dispositions of variances and deviations in your area
- Develop lean, tool-driven processes for requirements, safety, and V&V and drive adoption across the team and design IPTs
- Act as the working-level technical interface across IPTs and with customer and partners
- Review deliverables of others for subtle flaws and gaps
- Mentor engineers and set technical direction for your scope
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. in aerospace, systems, or related engineering field (M.S. preferred)
- 8+ years of relevant systems engineering experience with demonstrated ownership across requirements, system safety, and V&V
- Demonstrated experience owning a major technical area or inter-element seams as Responsible Engineer, largely without oversight
- Track record of leading anomaly investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective action on high-consequence issues
- Demonstrated ability to develop lean engineering processes and earn adoption without direct authority
- Deep fluency with SE tooling (Jama, Cameo, Windchill, DOORS) and judgment to drive tool decisions that reduce manual effort
- Demonstrated technical mentoring and ability to set technical direction
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in engineering or technical discipline
- Human spaceflight, crewed vehicle, launch vehicle, or complex integrated-system experience
- Experience from safety-critical or regulated industry (medical devices, commercial aviation, nuclear, automotive) owning requirements, verification, or safety baseline for major product area
- Experience as customer-facing technical interface (NASA or comparable government/prime customer) on requirements, verification, or system safety
- History of introducing tools or methods adopted at scale that measurably cut cycle time or error rate
- Experience across multiple lifecycle phases (design through operations) and familiarity with certification processes
Compensation
- Base Pay Range: CO applicants $133,500.00 to $186,898.95; WA applicants $145,188.00 to $203,263.20; other site ranges may differ
Additional Information
- Relocation provided
- Travel expected up to 25% of the time for cross-site and partner coordination
- Background check required for all positions