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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 Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. The Embedded Automation Architect sits within a specific Blue Origin business unit (New Glenn, Engines, Lunar, In-Space Systems, or a production site) while reporting into the central Factory Automation Group. You are the single point of automation strategy for that business unit: you build its complete multi-year automation roadmap against Blue's shared automation backbone, decide what to automate and in what order, resolve make-versus-buy, and shepherd projects from concept through the central Factory Automation build teams to production.
This is an architect and technical-leadership role, not a single-cell build role - you will set the technical direction that hands-on controls and mechanical engineers then execute, and you will be measured on the roadmap you originate and the recurring cost your automation removes, not on machines you personally wire. You set the technical direction - increasingly AI-enabled - for how a business unit's work gets automated, from machine-generated programming through in-process ML quality to the reasoning layers behind automated part buyoff, and you work AI-natively yourself, using and where useful building the tools that make a small automation team move faster. You bring deep, credible controls and robotics expertise - enough to earn the trust of the build engineers and to review their work - and you apply it at the level of a program's whole automation footprint rather than one machine at a time. Once a business unit's roadmap is executing, you redeploy to architect the next.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and continuously maintain the automation roadmap for your assigned business unit, built against Blue's shared automation standards, template library, and digital thread - not a per-site fork.
- Prioritize automation investment using category economics: identify where recurring labor and cost are trapped (e.g. high finished-part-to-material cost ratios on machined hardware), and rank candidates by savings potential against capital and schedule.
- Lead make-versus-buy decisions for automation systems, applying Blue's build-versus-integrator economics - defending an internal-build option where it lowers capital intensity and captures integrator margin.
- Enforce design-for-automation upstream: partner with the business unit's design and engineering teams to freeze designs, collapse ... For full info follow application link.ITAR RequirementsTo conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here. Equal Employment OpportunityBlue 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.Affirmative Action and Disability AccommodationApplicants wishing to view a copy of Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.