Vehicle System Safety Engineer – Lunar Transportation

Lunar Transportation: This role is part of the Lunar Transportation business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s multiple Blue Moon lander product lines. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of people living and working in space, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.   

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers you will work as a Vehicle System Safety Engineer on the Systems Engineering team for the lunar lander system. You will be responsible for performing safety analyses for the vehicle per the processes defined by the program's Safety and Mission Assurance Lead. You will be responsible for producing safety analysis products, performing functional and safety requirements definition, working with Responsible Engineers to identify hazard controls and mitigations in the vehicle design, supporting integration, verification, and validation. Your passion, expertise, and skills will impact the design and integration of the spacecraft and mission success. You should expect that this foundational part of our vision will require your excellent communication and teamwork.

Responsibilities included but are not limited to:

• Perform activities including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), Hazard Reports, Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), reliability analysis, and developing mitigation plans
• Define and decompose vehicle functions
• Develop diagrams and documentation of functional architecture
• Ensure traceability between system and subsystem functions, requirements, and safety artifacts
• Provide review, guidance, and expertise of subsystem safety analysis products
• Support verification and validation of safety and reliability requirements
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers across the program and company
• Collaborate across Lunar Systems Engineers to develop best practices and find opportunities for common processes across project

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field
• Experience with performing safety analyses including one of the following: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Functional Hazard Assessments (FHAs), Hazard Reports, Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), reliability analysis, and mitigation plans
• Strong understanding of Systems Engineering principles and practices such as requirements definition, requirements traceability, functional decomposition, and verification and validation
• Knowledge of major spacecraft subsystems and design
• Experience performing functional architecture definition and decomposition
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate technical information effectively
• Ability to form relationships with experts from varying engineering fields and provide constructive feedback about safety and reliability concerns
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience performing system safety and/or reliability analysis on satellites or human-rated in-space systems
• Strong safety and mission assurance fundamentals
• Experience performing compliance assessment of system safety processes and products against external standards including Range Safety, NASA, FAA, MIL-STD-882, MIL-HDBK-217, or ARP-4761
• Experience with systems engineering tools for requirements management and modeling, such as JAMA and Cameo
• Experience with design, development, and certification of spaceflight systems, avionics system architectures and designs, and radiation environments/effects
• Experience with performing verification of safety and reliability requirements and artifacts