Welding Engineer III

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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 is part of the New Shepard program. New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space. Through operational reusability, New Shepard supports our mission of lowering the cost of access to space.

As part of a hardworking team of engineers, you will tackle existing material problems for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of New Shepard. You will review production drawings for large complex assemblies, develop processes, select materials, help implement a New Shepard Parts, Materials and Processes Plan and define design requirements. We work closely with quality, design, structures, thermal, integration and manufacturing to optimize designs and processes.

Your broad welding and metallic experience will be impactful to the team as we refine processes and engineering designs. We get to be involved in all materials and processes related to the New Shepard program! This means you will gain and share experiences across the organization. Our best team members are flexible in constantly evolving environments, thorough, detail oriented and passionate.

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!

• Develop, release, and maintain welding process documentation.
• Support procurement activities to support vehicle build schedules.
• Support integrated test objectives, data review, and reporting.
• Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.
• Work with multi-functional teams across multiple work sites that include design, analysis, materials, processes, structures, fluids, systems, procurement, and manufacturing.

• B.S. degree or higher in mechanical, structural, or other relevant engineering field.
• 5+ years in professional engineering experience.
• Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials.
• Experience with large primary or secondary structures.
• Experience with material selection, compatibility, and metallic manufacturing techniques & product forms (e.g. sheet metal, machining, etc).
• Familiarity with tolerance, GD&T and design for manufacturability.
• Hands on experience with hardware “on the production floor” and/or “in service”

• Experience with aluminum welding methods including friction stir welding and gas tungsten arc welding.
• Ability to work independently driving engineering from conceptual to released engineering and flight hardware.
• Experience designing for manufacturability and value engineering, with focus on cost reduction and build time hour optimization.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Project or another equivalent schedule software
• Familiarity with budget management
• Experience in risk management and consolidation of technical data for presentation to senior leadership.

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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