Thermal Systems Engineer – Systems IV

Overview

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products.

To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. In this position, you will work directly with NASA as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program. You will play a key role in developing the systems that will return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of Earth.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to build the road to space. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

• Define and decompose system-level requirements into actionable specifications within the Thermal subsystem domain.
• Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) to ensure subsystem compatibility and integration fidelity.
• Conduct system analysis and trade studies to optimize thermal subsystem performance, reliability, and cost across mission profiles.
• Drive verification and validation planning, including environmental testing, functional checks, and mission simulations.
• Lead passive hardware design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Support integration, test, and launch operations, including anomaly resolution and post-launch analysis.
• Support schedule management of subsystem systems engineering efforts and products, team coordination, and support make vs buy decisions, hardware procurement, and vendor management.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ownership of passive thermal artifacts such as the master equipment list, power equipment list, safety products and other documents.
• Ensuring alignment and synchronization of thermal subsystem analysis data with interfacing subsystems such as Electrical Power, Liquids, Gas and GNC.
• Reviewing system level CONOPS information and distilling into useable datasets for consumption by the thermal analysis and passive thermal hardware teams.
• Verifying compliance of designs against documented hardware temperature limits.

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering and 8+ years of related experience.
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices, integration processes, design for manufacturing, and quality control.
• Proven expertise in requirement analysis, interface definition, and component and system-level verification and validation.
• Demonstrated experience with flight integration and environmental qualification (thermal, vibration, etc.).
• Strong understanding of subsystems and their thermal implications across the mission lifecycle.
• Background in passive thermal control hardware or thermal analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with spacecraft thermal control hardware design and development.
• Ability to perform simple thermal assessments via first principles/hand calculations.
• Experience with software tools such as DOORS, Jama, MATLAB, Cameo, Thermal Desktop etc. design and analysis tools.
• Demonstrated experience working interface control.

• M.S. degree in engineering and/or 14+ years of related experience.
• Strong communication skills, with an ability to quickly build consensus among stakeholders.
• Experience leading programs from concept through launch and operations.
• Hands-on experience with satellite ground systems and mission operations.
• Experience with data analysis (Matlab, Excel, Winplot, etc.), and scripting (bash, sh, Python, etc.) tools
• Experience evaluating make/buy…