Sr Systems AI Engineer New Glenn Advanced Upper Stage (Fixed Term)

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At Blue Origin we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. Were 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 passionate and hardworking multidisciplinary team you will help define performance upgrades and production changes to build on a myriad of technically-focused workstreams. You will work with the Upper Stage Program Leader supporting all aspects of project management to include cost schedule technical design risk & opportunity certification and change management.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise leadership skills and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Bias for action passion for our mission and vision are required!

Note: This is a 12-15 month fixed-term position with full benefits.

Specifically you will:

• 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.

• Drive multi-functional studies to close risks threatening program cost and schedule

• Coordinate with engineering Responsible Engineers (REs) to develop strategic roadmaps for certification and qualification of engineering designs.

• Work with technical and management functions to develop content for Blue Origins Weekly Business Review (WBR) and Program Management Review (PMR)

• Coordinate across subsystem Responsible Engineers and Technical Project Managers to collect and coordinate documentation for certification activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or related technical field

• 10 years industry experience in launch system engineering development and/or operations

• 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

• Passion for Blue Origins mission: Millions of people living and working in space!

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years industry experience in launch system engineering development and/or operations

• Masters degree in engineering and/or Business

• 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.

Compensation Range for:

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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 companys intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the companys results or other factors at the companys 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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