Sr. Solution Architect - Flight Operations and Reuse

We are a diverse 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 of experts, you will work with architects, engineers, system owners, product managers and business leaders at multiple levels (from executives to mechanics) to design and deliver safety critical solutions for Blue Origin Flight and Operations group. You will be directly working with programs including but not limited to New Shepard, New Glenn, and Blue Engines.

We are looking for an inspiring Solution Architect, who can drive collaboration across business, engineering and operations groups to reduce cycle time between flights.

• Collaborate with business partners to identify business problems, generate ideas to solve novel problems, test hypothesis through rapid prototyping and establish target state architecture to achieve business goals
• Employ the latest research and industry standard methodologies in problem domain to craft innovative and repeatable solutions
• Proactively engage with federated development teams, earning their trust through providing tactically useful input
• Define and maintain reference architectures and design patterns to accelerate new architectures, designs and implementations
• Solution, implement and operationalize new COTS and custom software capabilities; curate a library of enterprise solutions necessary for flight and operations that is available to all Blue Origin development teams
• Be the change agent to adopt new solutions to drive efficiency and enable the mission.
  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5 years software architecture experience
• Firsthand, repeated, experience making architectural decisions followed by firsthand experience supporting evolving customer needs within the architectures delivered
• 5 years experience building cloud native scalable distributed software systems
• Proven experience with microservices based solution design, delivery, support, and continuous improvement
• Ability to deliver incremental and individually valuable steps toward a coherent scalable architecture
• Ability to quickly absorb information in an unfamiliar domain and translate it into software
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
  

• Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Aerospace, Mechanical or field related to the responsibilities
• Manufacturing and/or Aerospace industry experience
• Safety Critical Systems design/development experience
• Experience with Hardware Test and Flight Operations
• High Velocity, High Volume IIOT data processing solutions
• SysML/UML Modeling experience

Don't meet every single requirement? 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 a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation range for on site CO applicants is $158,681-$232,733

Compensation range for on site WA applicants is $172,575-$253,110

Compensation range for on site CA applicants is $172,575-$253,110

Other site ranges may differ

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on "EEO Is the Law," please see here and here.

Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

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Benefits

Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.

Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays

Discretionary bonus programs