Fluids Operations Integrator - II

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. The first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed to be human-capable.

About the role

As part of a hardworking team of engineers, specialists, and technicians, you will work on systems engineering for the New Glenn Stage 2, 4 Engine (GS2-4E) Program. Your activities may include trade studies, margin development for allocations, risk management, gated reviews, system safety analysis, lightweight thermal-fluids analysis, technical performance management, configuration and data management, and regulatory compliance. You will verify that customers experience a phenomenal ride to space and serve as the authority on your subsystem’s operations, including CONOPS, functional architecture, and integrated hardware/software functionality. You will follow component hardware development, autonomous software, integrated development testing, and feed forward lessons learned into flight vehicle operations. Collaboration with the stage-level lead engineer is key, as is creating constraints, alerts, and limits for the New Glenn integrated test and launch teams.

Responsibilities

• Support Vehicle and Ground System Project Leads by carrying out systems engineering activities in accordance with Blue Origin standards and practices
• Build detailed CONOPS for pre-launch and flight operations
• Requirements authoring, decomposition, analysis, traceability, and verification
• Negotiate interfaces and coordinate between internal and external stakeholders
• Develop and implement verification plans and strategies to complete verification of requirements
• Define operational constraints for the end-to-end safe handling and successful operation of the subsystem
• Lead gated reviews and support New Glenn program and element level gated reviews
• Author and maintain system safety documentation such as Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Architecture Safety Assessments (ASA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), and Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECAs)
• Collaborate with integrated test, launch operations, and autonomous flight operations customer teams to incorporate operational constraints into downstream procedures and flight plans
• Provide real-time engineering anomaly resolution during integrated test and launch operations

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace engineering or other technical field
• 3+ years of current technical hands-on experience in: Fluids, Thermal, Propulsion, Cryogenics, Pneumatics
• Technical hands-on experience in at least one of these areas: Analysis, Design, Testing, launch operations
• Hands-on experience in developing, authoring, and implementing integrated tests or operating launch vehicles
• A passion for understanding the bigger picture
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in teams as well as lead through influence
• Experience writing or consuming requirements
• Ability to operate, make decisions, lead, and make forward progress in ambiguous environments
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• 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

• Launch vehicle controller (front room or engineering back room) experience
• Experience in system engineering on launch vehicles, spacecraft, or in other highly regulated industries
• Experience with system safety
• System integration experience, preferably with aerospace hardware
• Knowledge of current systems engineering processes and methodologies
• Experience with DOORS Next Generation or equivalent requirements management software
• Experience in reliability, maintainability and operability analysis and execution
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA

Pay

Base Pay Range: For CO applicants is $90,934.00 - $127,307.25; WA applicants is $99,201.00 - $138,880.35. Other site ranges may differ.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for additional benefits and bonuses based on individual contributions and company results