Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Space Systems Development
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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!
This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. This position is supporting the Space Systems Development (SSD) business unit. SSD develops next-generation concepts and systems to advance our future of living and working in space sustainably.
We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention toward safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. If you share our passions and vision, thrive in a dynamic startup environment, excel on integrated cross-functional teams of diverse individuals, are experienced and skilled in several relevant technologies (even if perhaps not in the aerospace industry), continuously seek out opportunities to learn and improve, and do not allow title or job description to limit the depth or breadth of your contributions, then we would love to hear from you. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will translate engineering intent, drawings, and configurations into fully functional hardware ready for test, qualification, and flight. As part of a diverse and hardworking team of engineers and specialists, you will be responsible forsupporting the Space Systems Development business unit, including:
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Create build & flow documents
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Identify tooling needs required for production
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Create manufacturing BOMs
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Author work instructions
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Perform engineering drawing review and provide final approval for manufacturing
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Ensure build readiness
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Provide shipside/lineside support working directly with flight hardware
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Participate in anomaly investigations, root cause/corrective action analyses, and development/implantation of recovery plans
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Non-conformance report (NCR) generation, management, & closure
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Aerospace Engineering or related fields.
- Experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle structures, automotive or similar.
- Extensive experience in a manufacturing engineering capacity in one or more of the following areas: Harnesses, Avionics, GN&C, or Test.
- Direct hands-on experience with complex commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies (designing custom cards or integrating COTS hardware).
- Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and general board layout principles.
- Familiar with design, development and verification of complex computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to monitor sensors and control actuators
- Extensive experience with new product development.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers with less experience
- Demonstrated ownership in your area of responsibility.
- Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals for mechanical design and manufacturing, including working knowledge of GD&T.
- Strong written, personal, technical, and software skills (CAD, Issue Tracking, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc).
- Ability to develop processes compliant with industry quality systems such as AS9100.
- Customer focused with a proven ability to work cooperatively with teams of diverse skills across large geographic distances.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
- Ability to support scheduled work shift (we may rotate shifts occasionally) and work off-shift (2nd or 3rd shifts), extended hours, and weekends if/when vital.
- 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.
Must be physically able to:
- Support production floor activities.
- Climb stairs and work in small areas.
- Lift and carry 40 lbs.
Desired:
- Master's Degree in Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or similar) from an accredited college or university Extensive experience in New Product Development
- Extensive experience identifying tooling needs for production
- Proficient in writing work instructions at a high pace
- 10-12+ years manufacturing engineering experience.
- Demonstrated expertise designing high-reliability, safety-critical, Class 2/3 board assemblies; including familiarity with IPC 6xx and NASA-STD-8739.n (or similar) standards.
- Proficiency using Altium/Cadence OrCAD / Allegro (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards; and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors.
- Proficiency with scripting; programming and analysis/modeling tools: Python, Linux/Windows shell scripting; assembly language, C, C++; MATLAB / Simulink / SPICE (or similar).
- Exposure to analog and digital filters, signal conditioning and signal processing using discrete components.
- Exposure to designing safety or mission critical aerospace flight hardware compliant with DO-254.
- Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant, radiation-hardened flight hardware intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments.
Compensation Range for:
WA applicants is $126,201.00-$176,681.40
Other site ranges may differ
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
Inclusivity Statement
Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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.
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.
Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.
Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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