Principal Systems Engineer — Lunar Human Landing System; HLS

Position: Principal Systems Engineer — Lunar Human Landing System (HLS)
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 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.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will help define Blue Origin's Human Landing System (HLS) — the lander that will carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon and return them safely to Orion. On the System Definition & Certification team you work across requirements, system safety, verification & validation, and certification — the instruments we use to prove the vehicle is safe to fly crew.

You will serve as a principal systems engineer and technical authority for the team — setting the requirements, safety, and verification standards that hold across the vehicle, resolving the hardest cross-cutting and inter-element problems, and, for the right person, leading the team's system-level execution and standing as its senior technical voice to NASA. We favor lean, tool-driven workflows over moving data by hand, and we would rather build the tool that removes the busywork than staff it.

The right person believes the job is landing humans safely on the Moon and returning them to Orion — and treats requirements, verification, and system safety as the instruments of that mission, not the point of it. They are comfortable telling a customer
* why* a leaner approach still meets intent, and they have the record to make that case land.

Special Mentions Relocation provided

Travel expected up to 25% of the time to support NASA coordination, partner engagement, and cross-site activities

Interviews will include a technical assessment

Multiple positions available

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Serve as a principal technical authority for system-level engineering across the team — requirements, system safety, and V&V — spanning multiple vehicle areas and the inter-element seams between them

Set the technical standards and methods for how requirements are decomposed and allocated, how verification is planned and closed, and how hazards and variances are dispositioned, and earn their adoption across the team and design IPTsResolve the most ambiguous, highest-consequence technical problems, including cross-cutting integration and inter-element issues where no established approach exists

Carry system-level technical decisions and reviews for the team, and represent the team's technical positions to leadership and the customer

Define and continuously improve the requirements, safety, and V&V processes for the team — set the standard for how the work gets done — and earn buy-in across the program and NASA so they are adopted in practice, not just published

Act as a senior working-level technical interface with NASA on requirements, verification, and system safety

Bring NASA a rationale for why Blue's approach meets their needs and intent, starting from what is right for the lander rather than defaulting to how it has been done before

Set the direction for lean, tool-driven methods (Jama, Cameo, Windchill, DOORS) that remove manual effort at team scale

Design workflows that are lean by…