Blue Origin is seeking to develop and operate New Glenn, a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, with a focus on safe human spaceflight and reusable systems. The role supports the development of AI/ML systems to enhance program management, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Strong AI/ML foundation and software engineering skills or hands-on experience with LLMs and AI agent frameworks.
- Experience leading system-level technical trade studies.
- Demonstrated program/project management experience.
- Experience across fluids, mechanical, and structures engineering domains.
- Ability to work with partially defined requirements and changing criteria.
- Program Management Professional certification or associated degree programs.
- 10+ years industry experience in launch system engineering development and/or operations.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy end-to-end AI/ML pipelines (from data ingestion and model training to deployment and monitoring) that support advanced AI applications in scheduling, resource allocation, risk management, scope control, and agile/scrum program management.
- Understand data sources, manage data collection and data pre-processing, labeling, and own data outputs.
- Develop LLM-integrated systems with memory (context management) and retrieval-augmented generation capabilities.
- Integrate AI models into production environments, optimizing for performance and implementing CI/CD automation.
- Develop and coordinate production engineering changes, coordinating project schedules and incorporation plans to integrate changes into the vehicle and production systems.
- Coordinate across engineering, production, supply chain, project management, and design functions to resolve non-conformances, ensuring value engineering is incorporated in decision processes.
- Work directly with supply chain to ensure purchase request, purchase orders are fulfilled timely and develop associated metrics.
Other
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or related technical field.
- 15+ years industry experience in launch system engineering development and/or operations.
- Master’s degree in engineering and/or Business.
- Passion for Blue Origin’s mission: Millions of people living and working in space!
- Applicants 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.
