Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer – Glenn XLanding Gear Subsystem

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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.

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn — a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. The fully reusable Stage 1 booster (GS1-9E, powered by nine BE-4 engines) is central to Blue Origin's mission of dramatically lowering the cost of access to space through rapid reuse.

As a Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer on the New Glenn Stage 1 Landing Gear Subsystem, you will own the design, analysis, and qualification of clean-sheet landing gear hardware for the New Glenn 2.0 booster. You will join a small, high-performing team of approximately ten engineers driving a design philosophy centered on reusability, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness

— hardware that lands a booster and flies again with minimal touch labor.

This is a hands-on design role with end-to-end ownership: you will take components from requirements and concept through detailed design, development test, qualification, and rate production, and you will stay with your hardware through post-flight inspection and refurbishment.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, engineering judgment, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required.

• Own the complete lifecycle of assigned landing gear components and mechanisms — requirements and interface definition, conceptual and detailed design, analysis, development testing, qualification, manufacturing support, and post-flight serviceability
• Design deployable structures and mechanisms including actuators, dampers, latches, locks, and energy-absorbing elements, with explicit attention to deployment reliability and touchdown load paths
• Generate component drawings, assembly drawings, and interface control documents, applying GD&T per ASME Y14.5 and performing tolerance stack-ups on mechanism kinematics
• Perform sizing, material selection, and structural, kinematic, and dynamic analysis to demonstrate positive margin under landing loads, vibration, thermal, and cryogenic proximity environments
• Design for reusability — specify inspection points, wear interfaces, tribological surfaces, and refurbishment procedures that hold up across a rapid-reuse flight cadence
• Drive designs to recurring cost and touch-labor targets, partnering with manufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing to make parts producible at rate
• Develop component specifications, support source selection, and manage suppliers through development, qualification, and delivery of flight hardware
• Plan and execute development and qualification test campaigns, including test article definition, instrumentation, data reduction, and anomaly resolution
• Contribute to subsystem safety products — fault trees, component-level failure mode assessments, and reliability assessments
• Support first-time system builds and integration on the floor, resolving technical and schedule issues in real time
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