Senior System Safety Engineer

Life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), stock options.

United States, Washington, Seattle.

Apr 23, 2026.

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 Blue Origin Operations, which encompasses Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance, supporting manufacturing and supply chain across all Blue Origin facilities.

This role is part of the Safety, Quality and Mission Assurance organization and focuses on defining, monitoring and assessing processes that guide design, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, reliability, environmental health, and safety, product integrity, and certification.

As a Senior System Safety Engineer, you will work with systems engineering teams to define and verify compliance with safety and reliability requirements. You will help engineers identify areas of opportunity for design improvements, minimise risk to people and property, and increase the probability of mission success. You will lead, perform, and coordinate safety analyses to identify hazards, causes, controls, mitigations, and risk characterisation.

You will work directly with responsible engineers, program management, and customers to return humans to the Moon and extend human presence beyond Earth.

We are looking for someone to apply technical expertise, leadership skills and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is a must!

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 20% of the time

• Perform and lead engineering activities including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Preliminary Hazard Assessment (PHA), Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA), Hazard Reports, Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), reliability analysis, and developing mitigation plans.
• Develop plans and coordinate completion of system and subsystem safety analysis, providing review, guidance, and expertise of safety analysis products.
• Ensure traceability between system and subsystem functions, requirements, and safety artefacts.
• Support verification and validation of safety and reliability requirements.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers across the programme and company.
• Collaborate across systems to develop best practices and find opportunities for common processes across programmes.

• B.S. degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of System Safety or Systems Engineering experience performing activities such as requirements definition, requirements traceability, functional decomposition, integration, verification and validation.
• In‑depth experience with performing safety analyses on safety‑critical systems including FTA, PHA, FHA, Hazard Reports, FMECA, reliability analysis, and mitigation plans.
• Ability to lead and coordinate safety analysis products across stakeholders and experts from varying engineering fields.
• Strong safety and mission assurance fundamentals.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate technical information effectively.

• Experience performing system safety and/or reliability analyses on satellites or human‑rated in‑space systems.
• Experience performing compliance assessment of system safety processes and products against external standards including Range Safety, NASA, FAA, MIL‑STD‑882, or ARP‑4761.
• Experience with certification of human‑rated space systems.
• Process ownership and maintenance experience.
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