Blue Ring Model Based Systems Engineering & Architecture Engineer (Top Secret /

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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 Blue National Security (BNS), where our focus is the design, development, and delivery of launch and spacecraft systems for national security missions. Through Blue Ring, our all-in-one, high-powered hybrid solar-electric and chemical-propelled spacecraft, we provide unmatched mission maneuverability, versatility, and capacity at dramatically lower-profile costs. As a Systems Engineer on a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will function as a Systems Architect within the Mission Systems Engineering, Integration & Test organization, working closely with other system, software, hardware and integration & test engineers to optimize the System Architecture baseline for unique Blue Ring Spacecraft missions and customer needs. This position reports to the Mission SEIT Requirements, Verification & Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Architecture Director for the space mobility product line. You will work at a spacecraft mission & system level with a focus on using modern MBSE and System Architecture standards and frameworks to capture Blue Ring architectural product line variants, including all critical spacecraft bus, ground system and payload requirements and interfaces, in a model-based environment in support of maturing the Blue Ring Digital Thread. This role will begin with a first-of-its-kind space vehicle in development and grow with the product line through multiple missions and objectives.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with the Blue Ring Mission Lead Systems Engineers, Spacecraft Systems Engineering, Flight Software, Payload & Mission Integration, and Ground Systems Engineering Teams to define system architecture variants in a model-based environment across multiple customers and missions
• Analyze mission requirements for multiple mission types and ensure accurate flow-down and traceability to elements in the system architecture
• Support the derivation and allocation of requirements to lower levels of the system architecture in collaboration with respective development teams
• Deconflict competing requirements and support the development of concepts, candidate architectures, and optimized synthesis of requirements, architecture & design
• Generate MBSE artifacts such as space vehicle States and Modes definitions, Operational Constraints, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and behavior diagrams
• Perform as a subject matter expert on spacecraft and ground system capabilities and constraints to support the definition of multiple candidate architectures to meet evolving

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