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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 Enterprise Technology (ET), where we're developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin's mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.
- Role
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to s
et the technical direction for how Blue Origin finds, reasons over, and acts on its enterprise knowledge. As a senior individual contributor, you'll own the architecture of our agentic AI platform - the lakehouse , knowledge graph, retrieval systems, and natural-language interfaces that help engineering, manufacturing, and mission teams find critical data in seconds, not days. You'll lead through technical credibility, not reporting authority - staying hands-on, writing production code, and proving out the hard parts yourself.
Your impact is enterprise-wide . Your work reaches engineers designing engines, technicians building vehicles, quality teams investigating anomalies, and mission teams in flight, and is increasingly reused by other products through shared APIs and MCPs
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- Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and roadmap for Blue Origin's agentic AI, retrieval, and semantic reasoning platform.
- Stay hands-on across the full stack-write production code, build reference implementations, and prove out the hard parts yourself rather than delegating and reviewing.
- Design shared capabilities for reuse-exposed through documented APIs and MCPs-so other teams and products adopt them instead of rebuilding data and AI foundations.
- Set architecture direction across the platform portfolio (ingestion, knowledge graph, enterprise search, natural-language-to-SQL, multi-modal evidence),establishingreusable patterns and CI/CD,IaC, and release standards.
- Mentor senior/ mid-levelengineers and steward the standards, ADRs, and reference implementations that raise the whole team's bar.
- Establish AI evaluation and observability as engineering disciplines: regression suites, accuracy thresholds, and release gates, plus tracing and metrics (latency, cost, hallucination rate, relevance) on every production surface.
- Make AI output defensible-set the standard that answers trace to source-grounded evidence with provenance, access control, and confidence, and drive retrieval and generation quality through offline and online evaluation.
3 . Must-Haves
- 10+ years building production software, with 7+ years of cross-team architecture ownership or
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