Guidance Navigation and Control Systems Engineer - Reusable Space Transportation - Advanced Development Programs

Blue Origin is committed to a vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. Enabling this future requires more affordable, reliable, and available access to orbit. Reusability is key to all three goals. New Glenn's reusable first stage is our first step, but you can help us achieve total reusability. Come join our team to help work on the hardest problems in rocketry.

As part of a hardworking team of spacecraft development engineers, you will study and develop advanced concepts for a reusable hypersonic spacecraft. You will be responsible for systems engineering of the Guidance Navigation and Control (GN&C) subsystem and its components, including derivation and development of subsystem requirements, performing analyses and trades to validate requirements, and maintaining subsystem specification, budgets and performance metrics. As well, you will collaborate with the vehicle systems engineering, propulsion, structures, and dynamics teams to ensure design coordination to meet the vehicle performance deliverables.

Along with other growing, hardworking, and curious engineers you'll be deployed to programs that shape the future of Blue Origin. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe, repeatable spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! If you're excited by providing near-term value, solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, and completing challenging activities, please apply!

• Support early feasibility studies, subsystem architecture development, definition of subsystem and component trade space, and concept of operations.
• Derive and develop subsystem requirements, perform analyses and trades to validate requirements, and maintain subsystem specification, budgets and performance metrics
• Collaborate with other subsystems and spacecraft systems engineers to support define subsystem boundaries and interfaces.
• Support the definition, development, and execution of simulations and tools necessary for verification of subsystem functionalities.
• Support verification and testing, ensuring the subsystem complies to its requirements.

• B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering
• Applied industry experience and/or M.S. or Ph.D. focused on development of requirements, interfaces, trades and analyses for GN&C subsystems
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment
• Industry experience with GNC systems on space, reentry, or hypersonic vehicles; propulsion systems; and spacecraft systems development
• Understanding of the principles, concepts, and methods of systems engineering such as concept development, requirement definition, design solution definition, implementation, integration, verification and validation, qualification, commissioning, and operations
• Experience in modeling GN&C components, and analyzing performance of GN&C subsystem or components via simulation, testing, or analytical methods
• Understands relationship between GN&C, vehicle sizing, and vehicle automation
• Knowledge in control, navigation, and astrodynamics fundamentals
• Experience in Cameo Systems Modeler, DOORS Next Generation, and Matlab/Simulink
• Experienced in configuration and product data management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 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

• M.S. or PhD in aerospace engineering or related technical field
• Experience in development, implementation, and testing of guidance, navigation, and control algorithms on aerospace vehicles
• Experience working with GN&C sensors and actuators
• Experience in full development lifecycle of spacecraft, reentry, or hypersonic GN&C subsystems
• Experience designing and evaluating Monte Carlo simulations, hardware-in-the-loop, and software-in-the-loop testing
• Experience with performing system safety analyses including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA and software development tools like Github

The expected salary range for the position is displayed in accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Final agreed upon compensation is based upon individual qualifications and experience.

Estimated salary wage (Colorado only):$117K- $176K

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on "EEO Is the Law," please see here and here.

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Benefits

Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.

Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays