Environments Engineer

Overview

Application Close Date 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 supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

We are a 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 towards 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.

As part of a small team, you’ll provide technical expertise and analytical solutions to support the development of new space vehicles and test/launch facilities. You’ll need proficiency in shock, vibration, and acoustic environment measurement/prediction/analysis, and related laboratory testing. You will need a solid foundation in structural mechanics, in addition to your high frequency skills.

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!

• Prediction of launch vehicle shock, vibration, and acoustic environments due to engine, aerodynamic, pyrotechnic, or other sources
• Shock, vibration and acoustic measurement/data interpretation of ground and flight tests
• Development, supervision, and verification of component environmental test
• Develop and refine vibroacoustic test methods, procedures, levels, and duration
• Other high and low frequency loads tasks as required

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Passion for launch vehicle high frequency environments development/validation/testing
• Solid foundation of vibroacoustic and structural static/dynamic fundamentals, including PSD, Grms, OASPL, SRS, static/dynamic equilibrium, stress/strain/modulus, bending/shear/axial force development, etc.
• MATLAB proficiency

• Experience with the following commercial software tools:
  Wave6, VA One, ANSYS, NASTRAN, LS-Dyna
• 5+ years of experience in launch and/or space vehicle vibroacoustic prediction/analysis/measurement/testing

Compensation Range For

CA applicants is $ - $

CO applicants is $ - $

WA applicants is $ - $

Site ranges may differ.

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