Senior System Design and Analysis, Space Nuclear

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At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers, you willbe the System Designer and Analyst supporting Advanced Concepts and Engineering Formulation nuclear group with structural and thermal analysis for a portfolio of complex space- and human-certified engine and power systems. You will guide multi-disciplinary teams to align the engine system architecture with customer and company strategies, products, and technology maturation plans. If you are adept at managing to a plan, comfortable responding to evolving requirements or external constraints, and prioritizing efforts all the while infusing and facilitating creativity and innovation, you will share in the team's impact on all aspects of vehicle development and verification.

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 20% of the time

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Working with emerging and existing advanced concept program organizations to distill high level requirements into power and rocket propulsion system derived requirements
• Rapidly assess conceptual designs, perform system trade and configuration studies, and develop integrated design solutions
• Develop structural and thermal analysis on system and components determine optimal configurations to support mission needs
• Establish initial design and configurations of aerospace systems with mass and power assessments and providing inputs to customers for sizing of components
• Define vehicle and component configurations to support mission goals
• Lead technical designers and drive newly developed system from early layout to initial production releasing command media to support
• Assessing needs to onramp lower TRL technologies, and the respective cost and risk benefits
• Developing and maturing high level system requirements and verification methodologies as well as risk assessments, collaborating with the Systems Engineering organization
• Establish relationships, represent the program and report out technical data to external customers such as national labs, universities and government agencies
• Work with engine and component test groups to develop test and risk reduction plans
• Perform Mission Analysis with a propulsion focus, flying the vehicle/stage/spacecraft across the mission conops to optimize engine design characteristics and determine failure modes
• Coach, mentor and technically assist other engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical, electrical, or aerospace engineering or equivalent technical field
• 7+ years proven experience in the design, development, and flight operations of liquid rocket engines or spacecraft mechanisms/components
• Proficient in the challenges, technologies, and historical system solutions endemic to the space environment and have knowledge in several subject areas such as propulsion, fluids, management, mechanisms, control systems
• Proficient with design and analysis tools (Ansys, Fluent, etc)
• Proven understanding in the use of 3-D CAD tools (Creo is helpful) and configuration and data management software (Windchill, JAZZ, Doors, JAMA)
• Must be able to obtain [secret] clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with proposal support and leadership (technical/management volumes, Task Description/Basis-of-Estimate development, etc.)
• Experience working with U.S. Government research agencies (e.g. NASA, AFRL, DARPA)
• Experience with fault-tolerance strategies and architectures for safety and mission-critical systems
• Experience with component and system level development for space-flight environments
• Experience developing requirements, defining subsystem interfaces (both in-house and between external partners/suppliers), and other systems engineering products and practices
• Experience across the product life cycle (pre-conceptual design through field support)
• Experience with DFX tools and processes
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA
• Familiarity with formal risk and opportunity management processes

Compensation Range for:

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

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Benefits

• Benefits include: 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%, and an Education Support Program.

• 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 benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

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