Senior Systems Engineer, Configuration & CAD Design

About the role

This role is part of Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE), supporting Blue Origin’s mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. The team fosters innovation and drives engineering workflows of the future, shared solutions and standards, simplicity and lower costs, and manufacturable design.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the overall physical integration and packaging of the structural, mechanical, fluids and avionics subsystems within the integrated vehicle
• Create and manage interface definitions between subsystems with appropriate control documents and ensure that the configuration supports major design reviews and program milestones
• Continually assess design for integrated manufacturing, assembly, test and operations and drive design to optimize for manufacturability, quality, and cost
• Support development of system requirements, flow down, and verification planning
• Carefully coordinate regular configuration reviews to address module level interfaces, subsystem functionality, assembly, and operations
• Lead inter-module development priorities and expectations as resolution of integration issues between lead engineers and their respective teams
• Carefully coordinate the cross-functional change management process, facilitating design reviews and ensuring communication between all groups affected by the change
• Manage the Vehicle CAD models, including making sure top-down design principles, maintaining the CAD structure, and exporting CAD models
• Ensure the team adheres to the configuration management best practices as well as Blue Origin configuration management standards

Qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or related subject area
• Successful candidates in this role typically have 10+ years of related experience
• Proven configuration control experience on recently developed products from early trade studies through final design, manufacturing, and test
• Strong social skills and experience working in a highly integrated cross-functional team environment
• Strong design and integration skills using 3-D CAD software and experience with large assembly management (Creo Pro/E preferred)
• Experience with component packaging of highly integrated and complex products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment
• 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