Senior Payload Systems Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Payload Integration or Systems Engineer to manage the integration of optical terminals on spacecraft. This individual will apply customer management skills and systems engineering practices across various technical subject areas. Additionally, this role requires understanding and supporting requirements analysis and traceability; functional, systems, and safety analysis; technical performance monitoring; development of specialty engineering approaches to operability, reliability, maintainability and supportability; and system product lifecycle processes.

- Travel expectations: Up to 20% travel may be required for customer meetings, integration activities, and launch support

- Work with customers as a technical advocate for one or more payloads through the full payload lifecycle (execution of contract through payload integration and launch)

- Serve as the primary technical interface between Blue Origin and payload customers

- Coordinate payload requirements, integration schedules, and technical documentation

- Support the development of technical proposal content, including payload accommodation concepts, interface definitions, and mass/volume/power assessments in response to customer RFPs and RFIs

- Collaborate with business development and capture teams to provide payload accommodation expertise and technical inputs that inform pricing, schedules, and programmatic commitments during the proposal lifecycle

- Lead the development, allocation, and verification of requirements

- Assist with the development of systems engineering processes and tools, ensure consistent implementation, and service in a system integration capacity

- Work with multi-discipline teams to arrive at technical system solutions

- Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) between payloads and spacecraft systems

- Identify and manage technical risks throughout the payload integration process

- Oversee payload integration activities, ensuring compliance with requirements and specifications

- Coordinate with manufacturing and operations teams to ensure smooth transition from integration to launch

- Minimum of 8 years of experience in systems engineering principles and execution

- Experience in payload accommodation or spacecraft design, development, integration, and testing

- Able to work with minimal direction as well collaboratively with cross functional team members

- Knowledge of current systems engineering and integration tools and methodologies

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace engineering

- Experience leading the establishment and adherence of systems requirements for an aerospace project with a varied group of engineers across multiple disciplines

- Experience with verification of requirements using tools like DOORS Next Generation, system lifecycle configuration management tools, and other functional analysis toolsets

- Knowledgeable about system design and analysis and relations to element design at the flight and ground levels as well as component specification development

- Experience with optical communications systems and terminals

- Background in spacecraft bus systems and subsystem interfaces

Base Pay Range for: VA applicants is $156,802.00 - $219,522.45 CO applicants is $144,179.00 - $201,849.90 WA applicants is $156,802.00 - $219,522.45